Rooster Coloring Pages
Roosters are the loud ones of the barnyard. With their tall red combs, swinging wattles and long curved tail feathers, they're fun to color and even more fun to hear first thing in the morning. This page has farm roosters from simple to detailed, plus roosters from art and culture around the world.
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Rooster Coloring Pages
These range from simple outlines for little ones to a detailed rooster in a garden of flowers for older kids and adults. Roosters don't have to be red and brown, either. Real breeds come in glossy black with a green shine, pure white, gold and speckled patterns, so there's no wrong way to color them.
Roosters in Art and Culture
Year of the Rooster
The rooster is the tenth animal of the Chinese zodiac. In one version of the Chinese Great Race legend, the rooster, the monkey and the goat worked together to cross the river on a raft. People born in a rooster year, like 2005 and 2017, are said to be hardworking, honest and observant. The next Year of the Rooster is 2029.
Chinese New Year coloring pages
Sarimanok
The Sarimanok is a legendary bird of the Maranao people of Mindanao in the Philippines. Its name comes from sari, meaning colorful cloth, and manok, meaning chicken. It's usually shown with wide, swirling feathers and it stands for good fortune. All those swirls make it a great page for bright colors and bold patterns.
Weathervane Rooster
Roosters have been perched on rooftops and church steeples for well over a thousand years. One of the oldest surviving rooster weathervanes, the Gallo di Ramperto in Brescia, Italy, dates back to the year 820AD.
In the Gospels, Jesus tells Peter he'll deny knowing him three times before the rooster crows. The rooster on a church steeple became a reminder to stay faithful.
A weathervane swings so its head points into the wind, which tells you the direction the wind is blowing from.
Chickens and Chicks
Every rooster needs a flock. Hens lay the eggs and raise the chicks, and they come in just as many colors and breeds as roosters do. You'll find hens in nests, chicks hatching from their eggs and a few silly chickens on our chickens and chicks page.
Chickens and chicks coloring pages
Rooster Facts
- Built-in Alarm Clock: Roosters don't need the sun to tell them when to crow. A body clock inside them knows morning is coming, so they often start crowing before it's light out. They crow during the day too.
- Boss Goes First: In a flock with more than one rooster, the top-ranking rooster crows first in the morning. The others wait their turn.
- Built-in Earplugs: A rooster's crow is extremely loud. When he opens his beak wide to crow, part of his ear canal closes up so he doesn't hurt his own hearing.
- Sharing Snacks: When a rooster finds food, he makes a special clucking call and picks the food up and drops it again so the hens come over. He often lets them eat first.
- Spurs: Roosters have sharp, pointy spurs on the backs of their legs. They keep growing as the rooster gets older and are used to protect the flock.
