They start doing it when they are only a few days old when you have them in the brooder, so it must be hard-wired into their DNA! I've never seen a rooster hanging out with the chicks and bathing with them. He's such a good boy!
This is the first time we had broody hens and got to watch this. Our rooster still hangs out and shows the chicks how a rooster is supposed to behave and finds treats for them and watches our for predators, but the broody hens pretty much leave the babies alone now! We love "Whitey" so much! He's such a good boy! 🥰
@@mycoolhandgiveit, LOL. We have had a few that were aggressive to some people and our dog. He really hated the wife, she couldn't be within eyesight of him, or he would hop the fence and attack her! It was hilarious to watch but she didn't think it was funny at all! We adopted this White Leghorn from a house we sold and he hopped into the back of our truck with our Pitbull and was as calm as could be...We've had a lot of roosters over the years and he has been the best rooster ever, by far! He's always finding and bringing treats to all of his ladies, he's friendly around all of the people and animals and walks right up to everyone, he barely crows at all, and he has even tried to teach the other rooster how to be a gentleman and bring treats to the ladies! We would love to get one cockerel/rooster from his genetics, but I'm pretty sure all of the babies from this batch are pullets. We got incredibly lucky with him!
We had 3 broody hens and they hatched eggs and raised the babies from a bunch of our birds. I think there are 3 Brahma pullets. One of them is Buff color with feathered feet and she lives inside with us because she was born 3-4 days after the rest and all of the broody hens tried to kill her.
It kind of appears that way. However, prior to this video, the chick kept bathing on top of him, bumping into him, and making him move. He already moved away from her at least 3 times and I think he was just letting her know that she needs to move away from him. The mothers do the same thing from time to time.
