rooster behavior

About 10 Days ago we had some hawk attacks resulting in the loss of two hens over a 3 day period, as well as a couple near misses. We secured the space and all seems to have retuned to normal except that my poor, sweet 10 month old rooster hasn't crowed since. Is he in morning? Is there anything...

Okay. A few days ago, we bought a huge black Americauna rooster who is about 7 months old. My neighbor has a free range Derbyshire Redcap rooster who is about a year old. They got him like a week before we got our new rooster. Previously, all the chicks we had before died thanks to a homeowner...

Hello there! Despite ordering all pullets, our hatchery order sent us an Easter Egger cockerel as an extra surprise. I've never had a rooster before, so I've been researching rooster behavior and care. Wizard is now 4 months old, and he has started trying to mount our hens and pullets (7...

I have a rooster, Casanova that was raised with guinea keets and other chicks by a hen. He knows he is a chicken. The Guinea is madly in love with him, guards his pen and keeps an eye on all of my birds but prefers to gawk at Casey and hangs out around his pen all day. The bond this Guinea has...

Does anyone have experience with training a cockerel to be friendly towards humans? Ours is almost 9 weeks old and hasn't started crowing yet. He is not super friendly (he keeps a respectful distance) but he's fine with being picked up. Is this how he'll be for life, or could he become mean...

We finally were able to introduce our two groups of young birds this Easter weekend. But we had a fight! What should we do? We live in Canada and it’s been too cold to build anything outside so we have two brooders separated by glass with chicks quickly outgrowing their space. We’re working on a...

Hi all, Does anyone have experience with Light Brahma roosters and kids that they can share? I’d like to know how well they can get along with kids if they are raised with them. I have heard Brahma roosters tend to be gentle and people friendly but I‘m wondering how often they are well behaved...

If I had the stomach to kill this roo, or were able to find a taker he’d already be gone… but the only person who wanted him was somebody I strongly suspected wanted him for cock fights and so he is still with me… Anyway, he now has figured out what makes his job as flock protector easiest: just...

So right now i have an older polish hen around 5 years old in with a bunch of younger pullets and cocks (the excess cocks already have new homes just waiting for their families to be ready to pick them up). Well this hen was suprisingly pretty welcoming when I introduced the others. As head hen...

My silkie rooster, Monte Muffiano, is 6+ months old and in a flock of four hens and no other roosters. He crowed one singular time a few months ago and that's it. 100% silent. All his siblings and his dad started crowing loudly at two months old. Is it possible that he'll be silent? He used to...

Hi so I'm having issues with introducing my 2 new chicks to the flock. For reference my original flock is made of all silkies and has my roo and hen and then they have 5, 14 week old chicks. So since their chicks are 14 weeks already and I can already see some of them are roos I decided that it...

My rooster is a little over 4 months old and is starting to bite my hens esp on the top of their wings. They’re all the same age. is this normal for his age or is he just being a butthead and being mean? Not sure if I should separate him for awhile or what. I love him and have had him since...

Hi all, I have a young buff orp cockerel and am thinking about keeping him since we don’t have any other roosters. I know that buff orps are usually described as very sweet chickens and was wondering if that held true for the roosters? I know that every rooster is different, but just wanted to...

I know there are a lot of threads for aggressive roosters/cocks, so here's my experience thus far with my own and how it seems that I've "fixed" his attitude. Last April I got my starter flock as day old chicks consisting of six females and one male. My endeavor is that these are the start of a...

I need some advice about what to do about a new rooster attacking an older hen. Here's the coop scoop :) I had two Auracana hens that are about 4. I purchased six chicks in February. Two of each: Easter Eggers, Buff Orppingtons and Silkie Bantams. All guaranteed to be hens except for silkies...

Hi! We are quite new at chicken keeping so just had a question about our rooster. When we got our exchequer leghorn rooster and hen they were both supposed to be hens but turned out one was a roo ha. He is maturing now as well as the hens are however he has recently started pulling their...

Hello! I have a Black Copper Maran rooster and he is the only one i have of that breed. I wanted to use his genetics but am worried about his temperament. He is way too rapey towards my girls. They don't want to be around him because of it. What do you think, will his male offspring display...

I just found out that my sweet baby hen (about 2.5 weeks old) might actually be a rooster! He is such a sweetheart--very cuddly and tame already. I've never been able to keep roosters because they've always ended up being too rough on the hens and mean to people. Does anyone have any advice on...

Hello! I’m new to this site AND to chickens! We just recently added 3 hens to our existing flock of 3 (2 hens and a rooster). One of the 3 new hens is very timid and is taking longer to find her place in the pecking order than the others. She’s staying away from all the others and is still...

Howdy everyone! So here’s my dilemma: I have four young bantam/Game fowl cross cockerels who are brothers. They are just over 4 months old (born July 18th). I tried to find homes for them all by asking around (I live in a rural area so I know people who know people who might be able to take...