Rooster wing dance question

[chuckachucka]

I have a question about the rooster wing drop dance. Do they only do this dance with hens and sometimes people, or do they also do it with other roosters?

The reason I ask I that I have an eight week old chick I still can't sex and today I saw my older rooster do the wing dance to the chick. Does this mean the chick is a girl?

 

[sourland]

The wing dance can be either courtship (to a hen), intimidation (to you or another male), pecking order (to a chick 'I'm bigger than you'). It does not mean that the chick is a pullet; although, he's hoping that it is.

 

[chuckachucka]

Thanks for the replies. I suspected that some roosters might do the dance as a dominance show to younger roos. I was hoping it was a girl only thing though.

Here is the chick in question. Its a serama age eight weeks tomorrow. The comb started getting red at around five weeks and now sometimes looks as red as my older rooster. However the comb is still very small and the wattles are still just reddish marks under the head, not any protruding skin yet. Any opinions would be welcome!

 

[lazy gardener]

To add to Sour's assessment of the "dance". I'm betting that that roo DOES know the gender of the chicks! If a roo drops his wing in front of me, or tid bits in front of me, he's inviting me to chase him around the barn yard.

I'm guessing that's a lovely little cockerel.

 

[Isaac 0]

Thats a cockerel.

 

[chuckachucka]

That's what my gut instinct said all along, but he must be a slow developer. Other seramas at his age usually have much bigger combs and wattles I've heard. This chick was the only one that hatched from ebay eggs so I haven't had any thing to compare him to except photos online, and my Pekin bantams

 

[Chickassan]

Well he's really cute.♡

 

[chuckachucka]

The chick is now ten weeks old. Would you still say male? I'm so confused.

To add to Sour's assessment of the "dance". I'm betting that that roo DOES know the gender of the chicks! If a roo drops his wing in front of me, or tid bits in front of me, he's inviting me to chase him around the barn yard.

I'm guessing that's a lovely little cockerel.

Thats a cockerel.

 

[Isaac 0]

The chick is now ten weeks old. Would you still say male? I'm so confused.

Yes.

 

[chuckachucka]

Yes.

Can I ask what makes you think so? I'm still very uncertain and on another thread three people said pullet based on the same ten weeks photos.