@freckledjewel · Juliebelle Jokay
Saved 2026-05-15 · Posted 2025-03-14 · Status: New
How I get a good idea of who’s a hen and who’s a rooster when chicks are young. Roosters are more outgoing, curious, and fearless than hens, this transfers over to how they behave as adults, roosters explore and find new things, and then make a call for their hens to come eat what they found, this behavior is known as “tidbitting”. Roosters are more likely to stand up to or attack new threats while hens run away.
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Sorry guys, turned my commenting off as I don’t feel the need to argue this over and over while people can provide no literature to disprove my video , but I can provide multiple that back up my observations. Chicken behavior is well researched in science.
Posted a few more videos for anyone to check out. I didn’t realize the information I take for granted would be useful or wanted by anyone else 😂 so feel free to check those out. I’ll try making more chicken content. I’ve been breeding for about 15-20 years now and have picked up quite a few things that help me a lot. Through research and experience, most of it is so second nature I don’t even realize many might not know it. Thank you everyone 😊
Prior human socialization will also affect the outcome of this, since socializing would make you a familiar stimuli to hens. This video is on my chicks who do not receive socialization, so they have no familiarity with me.
Hey guys, if you feel the need to go out of your way to comment on my other posts and message me just to insult or harass me, don’t, it’s not that serious. This is a GENERAL IDEA. Which means it’s not 100%. I state that multiple times, but the behavior IS based on scientific literature. So stop attacking me because you don’t know what a GENERAL IDEA is. Nowhere did I say this is an absolute fact, that’s it’s going to work every single time, or that there are zero contributing factors. I include all of that. So stop. THIS IS WHY COMMENTS ARE OFF.
All literature provided for why this is backed by science is on my Facebook video in the comments, yes they are going for the ring, that doesn’t matter in the literature I provided, remember this is a general idea anyways, there are exceptions, basically, in multiple experiments, hens choose familiar stimuli and roosters choose unknown stimuli to investigate. This behavior is documented in many studies going back many years, and is widely accepted in literature.
You guys, I barely use instagram and I didn’t even realize this was not somehow linked to my Facebook! If you’d like to look me up, my name is Juliebelle Jokay, same profile picture I believe. Check the comments of that video for my explanations and literature provided . 🤣😅