Found rooster

[chicken keeper 123]

A few days ago we went to a park and we found a americauna teen rooster. He was just playing in the grass and we fed him so bread and he ate 3 pieces like there was no tomorrow. It was getting late and he went up to roost on a little electricity box. We felt bad since the nights are cold so we took him home for the night. He’s doing fine eating and drinking and getting along with our 8 hens. We think he may have been born somewhere but later lived out in the the park and nearby fields. He’s surprisingly super sweet doesn’t bite us, or fight he even naps in our arms. We put him in the run with our other ladies and he seems to like it. He’s digging and pecking and shows no sign of disliking being in a cage. Now my question is what should we do with him? Keep him bring him back to the park?

 

[CalBickieMomma]

Poor boy! I bet he was dumped. Where I live, people dump roosters in the old village part of town (they are famous and people feed them, so they live happily there and we all hope they don’t get eaten by predators...).
Can you not keep him? He sounds sweet (again, probably purchased with chicks and turned out to be a roo they didn’t want or couldn’t keep), and might be a nice addition to your flock .

 

[Folly's place]

Welcome!
His chances of surviving out there are very very poor, and he's already moved in with your flock, so keeping him sounds good, as long as having roosters is legal where you live.
It's best to have isolated him from your birds for a couple of weeks first, and I do hope you have looked him over carefully for mites and lice. you will be treating everyone if any are present on any of your birds, so do check, at night, with a flashlight.
He is very handsome, and good for you for taking care of him.
Mary

 

[chicken keeper 123]

Poor boy! I bet he was dumped. Where I live, people dump roosters in the old village part of town (they are famous and people feed them, so they live happily there and we all hope they don’t get eaten by predators...).
Can you not keep him? He sounds sweet (again, probably purchased with chicks and turned out to be a roo they didn’t want or couldn’t keep), and might be a nice addition to your flock .

 

[chicken keeper 123]

Welcome!
His chances of surviving out there are very very poor, and he's already moved in with your flock, so keeping him sounds good, as long as having roosters is legal where you live.
It's best to have isolated him from your birds for a couple of weeks first, and I do hope you have looked him over carefully for mites and lice. you will be treating everyone if any are present on any of your birds, so do check, at night, with a flashlight.
He is very handsome, and good for you for taking care of him.
Mary

Yes we have checked him and he’s as healthy as can be, he has no mites or lice

 

[chicken keeper 123]

Poor boy! I bet he was dumped. Where I live, people dump roosters in the old village part of town (they are famous and people feed them, so they live happily there and we all hope they don’t get eaten by predators...).
Can you not keep him? He sounds sweet (again, probably purchased with chicks and turned out to be a roo they didn’t want or couldn’t keep), and might be a nice addition to your flock .

Yes we really want to keep him just because he’s so sweet, I just wanted to see if you guys thought it was humane I think he’s been living outside for a while he definitely knows how to fend for himself but is ok around humans he seems to enjoy our company to

 

[CalBickieMomma]

We are thinking of keeping him just because he’s so sweet but I wanted to know if you guys thought it would be humane. I think he may have been living out for a bit he seems to know his way

Definitely humane. He was probably hand-raised by people, so taking him in would be a blessing (but then again, my mum and I are the queens of taking in strays and making them part of the family ).
Anyway, he’d be going from being out in the wild, alone and vulnerable to predators, to becoming part of a flock with a loving chicken family .

 

[chicken keeper 123]

Definitely humane. He was probably hand-raised by people, so taking him in would be a blessing (but then again, my mum and I are the queens of taking in strays and making them part of the family ).
Anyway, he’d be going from being out in the wild, alone and vulnerable to predators, to becoming part of a flock with a loving chicken family .

Thank you sooo much I was afraid we weren’t doing the right thing. We have 8 hens at home and 8 roosters at a friends house he is the first we’ve ever “adopted”. Thank you so much for your help. I will keep you guys updated on him!

 

[chrissynemetz]

It's good that you rescued him. The odds are pretty high that if you had left him there, eventually a predator would have gotten him. So you did a good thing taking him

 

[Kabootar]

A few days ago we went to a park and we found a americauna teen rooster. He was just playing in the grass and we fed him so bread and he ate 3 pieces like there was no tomorrow. It was getting late and he went up to roost on a little electricity box. We felt bad since the nights are cold so we took him home for the night. He’s doing fine eating and drinking and getting along with our 8 hens. We think he may have been born somewhere but later lived out in the the park and nearby fields. He’s surprisingly super sweet doesn’t bite us, or fight he even naps in our arms. We put him in the run with our other ladies and he seems to like it. He’s digging and pecking and shows no sign of disliking being in a cage. Now my question is what should we do with him? Keep him bring him back to the park?

In my humble opinion you should have quarantined him for atleast 30 days more preferably 40 days before introducing him to your flock. You don't know anything about his past. Even a seemingly healthy bird may carry harmful infections. They try to conceal any symptom of sickness as long as they can.