What are signs of a good rooster?

[saving grace]

Do Roos normally rip the feathers off the backs of the hens? My friend has a buff Orpington rooster and several hens have bare backs and wing tips.
I am getting a Americana from him - mystery bird- with his order.
Is this common or is this a mean bird?

Quite often if you do not have the right ratio of hens to a rooster (ten hens to one roo is good), the roo will over-mate the hens, ending in their backs getting bared. It doesn't necessarily mean the rooster is behaving bad, your friend may just not have enough hens to go around.

 

[Bigbluefrog]

Quite often if you do not have the right ratio of hens to a rooster (ten hens to one roo is good), the roo will over-mate the hens, ending in their backs getting bared. It doesn't necessarily mean the rooster is behaving bad, your friend may just not have enough hens to go around.

Oh he has 25 hens and two rosters plus 20 pullets and a 4 month old rooster which I will get. Plenty of hens but the ones over mated about 6 hens.