Help! Aggressive Roo when 7 hens added to flock??

[tacothechicken]

Just saying I once had a pair of silky roo s we thought for hens for like 6-8 months until they finally started crowing because they took forever to grow tails and were very submissive but that tail feather is very suspicious!

 

[NewMomma2017]

The Rescue roo we had for a week
(Yes I know he's Technically a cockeral but that's a mouthfull)

Pretty colors!!! I hate that someone dumped him.

 

[tacothechicken]

@NewMomma2017 yup a sex link boy he was super sweet! Totally woulda kept him if we could!

 

[NewMomma2017]

Just saying I once had a pair of silky roo s we thought for hens for like 6-8 months until they finally started crowing because they took forever to grow tails and were very submissive but that tail feather is very suspicious!

Interesting. I’ll look more closely at it. I wanna say I saw that one lay but I could be wrong. There are two that look similar too each other.

 

[NewMomma2017]

That black ones tail is suspect :/ unless that's your boy

No this is our adopted roo. You can tell he had a rough life before he found us.

 

[tacothechicken]

Definitely a gamebird! If it is a sneaky roo this can also be causing a huge stir and your resident boy may have decided they're an enemy flock that needs to be chased out which is bringing wrath upon any suspicious activity including his own hens :/ still advise roo is removed at this point

 

[Redhead Rae]

That black ones tail is suspect :/ unless that's your boy

The black has no pointed saddle feathers. Looks like a Black Australorp Pullet to me.

 

[tacothechicken]

That's a good point lol Im generally good at picking cockerals out in the early weeks of life(lol fam didn't believe me when I said the 4 chicks they'd brought home were all male at 5 weeks, they ended up quite embarrassed when the crowing started kicked in) so I almost never have to single out birds at months old but yes it is lacking a sharp saddle my mistake I suppose

 

[KikiLeigh02]

I agree with @Redhead Rae the black one looks like a pullet. Is your rooster bantam or full size? I'm sorry if you already shared and I missed it. Was the one he attacked the dominant hen in the new group? I think the advice you've already gotten is the best, if you want to keep the new pullets you'll have to get rid of the rooster. I hate it for him, I bet that boy is going to be beautiful after his molt. Injuring the hens is not acceptable though.

 

[NewMomma2017]

I agree with @Redhead Rae the black one looks like a pullet. Is your rooster bantam or full size? I'm sorry if you already shared and I missed it. Was the one he attacked the dominant hen in the new group? I think the advice you've already gotten is the best, if you want to keep the new pullets you'll have to get rid of the rooster. I hate it for him, I bet that boy is going to be beautiful after his molt. Injuring the hens is not acceptable though.

No I hadn’t been asked that question yet. he is a full size rooster. I want so badly to keep him but by ladies come first. He has attacked all 6 of the new ones and one from my original flock now. So I’m not sure if his aggressive side is starting to show since he is getting older??? He has been crowing pretty much the whole time since his arrival. There was maybe a month or two time span at first when he didn’t. We’ve had him since the beginning of the year I guess. So not long relatively speaking.