There's only room for one rooster in the hen house.
The bantam rooster may have a tough time here.
Behold! Chanticleer the rooster awakens the barnyard! The chickens are all over the barnyard.
Yes, "Rooster" should be capitalized when referring to the specific name of a rooster or when it is at the beginning of a sentence. However, when used generically to refer to any rooster, it is not capitalized.
The prepositional phrase in the sentence is "with the zigzag comb," which provides additional information about the White Leghorn rooster.
A veterinarian.
The rooster is a mature adult chicken - there's no other term in common use for it.
"With the zigzag comb"
What a rooster represents has different meanings related to the culture of the person or people using the rooster as a symbol. The Japanese use the rooster to represent the sun and the claws representing the science of war. In America, the rooster in the kitchen represents trust and good luck.
It means that the sound of the crowing of the rooster (cockerel) in the mornings woke the soldiers up. The rooster acted like an alarm clock. 'Alarm clock' is therefore a metaphor for 'rooster'. Had the sentence read 'The far-off rooster was like an alarm clock for the sleeping soldiers' it would have been a simile.
"With the zigzag comb"
The rooster's wattle swung from side to side as he waddled along.
Cackle not! The rooster jumped at the hen's first cackle.
A red rooster