I believe that the only time the chickens really mourn the loss of a chicken is if the chicken dies and they know about it. Some chickens will sit with a dying chicken until it passes and sit with it for some time after.
As for rehoming a rooster, they wouldn't care. They would just need to...
Texas can be brutal with heat. Hitting 97° today here. I have 3 solar powered fans coming in today for my coop. It is meant for a 245 square foot area, so it will hopefully have no problem with cooling them down.
Texas gets plenty of sun, so solar powered fans should be good!
Wow! I have never seen one with such a long beak! Good to know that this is not the only chicken like that. Maybe this chick was disabled in a way and then dumped by the person who owned it?
I have never seen a chicken, or chick with such a long beak. Doesn't look like the beak of any maran, RIR, golden comet, orpington, sexlink, wyandotte, etc. that I have ever seen.
And the fact that it has nothing like a comb is weird. Do you think maybe he came from some kind of breeder who...
I don't know if I would say smarter- they are just closer to the gaps that they sneak through, so they know their limits better than we do.
I would say they know more about what they can/can't do than we know of what they can/can't do.
I would say that judging by all the not smart things...