The roosters comb is like a tiny radiator. Blood comes close to the surface at the comb and wattles and air passing over these helps cool the blood. The comb and wattles also act as attractants to the females, a rooster with a good healthy comb is a potentially good mate.
Besides being decorative and a mate attractor the roosters comb and wattle are cooling devises. Birds do not sweat and in hot weather the comb acts as a tiny little cooling organ where the blood flows close to the surface of the exposed skin. Air moving over the comb helps to dispel heat as the blood moves in the comb.
Skin. This area in most breeds does not grow feathers. The comb is both a sexual attractant and a cooling feature. Chickens do not sweat, the blood circulates close to the surface of both the comb and wattles and is cooled. Breeds such as Silkies and polish hens have very fine feathers in this area but still get cooling from this area because the feathering is so fine as to resemble hair.
When they get the injections from a rooster's comb, the rooster does have to be killed. They can get rid of a rooster's comb without killing it but it has to be on the first day that it is born.
The thing on a rooster's head is called a comb.
A rooster
It is called a comb.
A rooster's comb is mainly used for regulation of body heat.
When they get the injections from a rooster's comb, the rooster does have to be killed. They can get rid of a rooster's comb without killing it but it has to be on the first day that it is born.
It's called a rose comb usually a rooster breed from Spain.
If they have a comb
The thing on a rooster's head is called a comb.
A rooster
it is on top of their heads
It is called a comb.
Red.
A rooster's comb is mainly used for regulation of body heat.
"With the zigzag comb"
A Leghorn rooster is a large white bird with a red comb.
"With the zigzag comb"