8 week old baby trying to mount other chicks and hens

[coco_nuts]

I have 12 6-8 week old chicks who have been brooded together from the beginning. They are now in a chicken tractor type of coop inside my large pen where my 7 grown hens (EE's, BO, BR, Australorps) and ducks and geese live, so that the grown ladies can see them but not get them. One of them, an Americauna, is clearly a rooster - he is 8 weeks old and tries to crow, has a huge comb, and has been mounting and biting the other chicks for two weeks already now! Has anyone ever dealt with this?

We don't really know what to do with him - we put him out in the larger pen with the big girls and he even tried mounting them a couple of times, but largely he got beat up on and was kept away from the food and water. If we put him back in with the littles, he's going to hurt them (he's MUCH bigger than most of them). Do we just leave him out in the pen with the big girls and let him fend for himself? All he does is circle the little chicken tractor ALL. DAY. LONG. trying to get at his original "flock".

 

[chicmom]

If you don't need a male, why not list him on CL and re-home him. He is so agressive at such an early age, that doesn't sound good to me.

 

[coco_nuts]

We definitely don't need a male - we were thinking we wouldn't mind one because it's fun to hatch out eggs and he's really handsome. We had to rehome a BR rooster who was too aggressive already, so I completely see your point - we should probably take him to the nice lady with the ginormous farm next time we go buy milk and butter.