Roosters have stematic heircharchy for crowing

[Panich52]

Science Daily

Bossy rooster takes lead vocal of cock-a-doodle-do

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sciencedaily/strange_science/~3/Eea0vj9Pewk/150724081943.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

From ancient times, people have been aware of the rooster's "cock-a-doodle-do" that marks the break of dawn, but has anyone wondered who crows first? In a new study, biologists have revealed that there is actually a systematic rule based on social ranking that determines the order of crowing in roosters.

[ananda]

1. I remember Chanticleer in The Nun's Priest's Tale.

He was definitely an alpha cock.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Anyone who has had chickens knows this.

A more interesting finding is why roosters mate with a hen so darn quickly. ( really really fast)

I found in my flock 30 hens and 2 roosters, a rooster would patiently work a hen from the flock, and get her as far away from the other rooster as possible before mating, and that it only took a few seconds for the dominant rooster to run over and attack the mating rooster.