Adult rooster and young roosters

[everythingjane]

This might be a silly question, but I've only had one rooster at a time before.. I now have some 10 week old "chicks" which include 3 roosters. Is it safe to put the adult roo with the little guys or will they get hurt?
Right now I only have two seperate areas and I want to put a different adult rooster with the hens.. so until I find a home for this guy I have to figure out another way of housing him...

 

[BellLisamo]

oh my gosh, i wish i could help. But i wouldnt try it. If the roo is protective he will probably attack them!

 

[I'vegotchickenfever]

Can't wait till someone has some advice. I've got the same thing going, but my chicks are only 4 wks old, however, the chicks out number the adult roos 12 to 2, nevertheless...

 

[melissastraka]

I put them in their own pen that has a fence between them for 3-4 weeks. This gives the adult roos time to get use to another male around and gives a chance to give the babies some time to understand that they are not the kings of the coops. So, far so good. They do tend to fight for a couple of days to establish the pecking order when I add them but over all i have never had one seriously hurt, just a little humbled.

 

[everythingjane]

Ok, thanks.... I'll come up with another idea... but I might not need to because I found a source for the particular eggs I was going to breed.
My adult rooster is kind of silly... He's been trying to sit in the nest box with the hens when they are laying.. I made him leave and then put in some smaller, higher nest boxes... Hopefully that will work

He's cute though.. I watched him today as he found a worm and made a big show of calling the hens over so that one of them would eat it.