Rooster or hen?

[StrayMagnet]

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LOL my bunny I use to have would do that to my cats!!!!!

 

[ald]

Flirtie, one of my Rhode Island Red hens seems to have gone gay, mounting another hen just like a rooster. No damage done but kind of a surprise for everyone.

I am thinking that it could be hormonal, dietary or stress from molting. She was very stressed from pushing out a ton of new feathers all over her body, and I had her on a higher protein diet and off the laying crumbles.

Maybe if she gets back on the regular laying diet she will feel more gurly.

Chickens go through a lot, and we humans think we know it all, but sometimes I think that we know even less about chickens than the chickens do.

 

[missnu01]

I used to have a rooster and a male guinea who were in love.. and yes. they took turns trying to breed each other (we are 100% positive that both were males).. sadly a fox ended their love affair...

I have a Yorkie poo that is In a heated love affair with one of our cats...and they switch whose "on top" as well. You'll come in and the at is behind the dog and they both look at you like what?! You walk in a room the next time and now the dog is behind the cat...like stop staring at us...

 

[HetaChick]

While this subject has been already clarified, I feel inclined to add:

That is common for some species, like male ducks pair up often during mating seasons and sometimes even make nests. Mallards are actually quite known for it. As for being "gay," animals don't have perceptions of sexuality like humans that cause us to classify or relegate someone/thing into a particular attraction category, but most animals benefit from the company of others, male or female, and sometimes they form a mating bond with them. It just happens. And I personally think animals benefit from pairing up much like how people benefit from their social bonding.

However, like some people have said: Dominance mounting does happen, and it frequently occurs with humans too, but under a different name that we don't like to talk about. And I don't need to explain why. But clearly that isn't the whole range of realities that exist.


Your bird is a hen/pullet. That's true and this is all cleared up (I guess I just wanted to type a fact and then my opinion, oopsss)
and I personally don't necessarily think of animals as gay or straight (which is far too linear) but there is no doubt that some animals develop same-sex courting/mating bonds while most take the more traditional offspring-bearing path.

Your pullet, by the way, is gorgeous.

 

[Breella]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Tango_Makes_Three

When I was young these were my favorite penguins at the Central Park Zoo for that reason.

 

[joeyfender]

Wow I have never heard of a hipster chicken

 

[Mattpenna]

 

[Dylon]

I found this because I just introduced a new male quail into an all male pen. He chased the others around and "mated" with them ....... I don't know what to think

 

[subhanalah]

I found this because I just introduced a new male quail into an all male pen. He chased the others around and "mated" with them ....... I don't know what to think

he was asserting himself n the pecking order. This is dominant behavior. As long as no one is getting hurt, there's nothing to worry about.

 

[Dylon]

he was asserting himself n the pecking order. This is dominant behavior. As long as no one is getting hurt, there's nothing to worry about.

I took him back out because where he grabbed them to assert his self was way too close to the others eye... Like just above the eye and I don't need a bunch of blind quail