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

[Chickassan]

Gameroosters don't make good flockmasters. Game hens don't follow roos like laying hens, they branch off in hen groups and rarely even deal with the rooster at all. He's not wired for what he's doing.

 

[Chickassan]

Just in my own experience the only way it has worked with a game roo is for the flock to have zero confinement or an area large enough so it seems that way. If he has a "territory" he will do better, but do know he will defend it like a madman.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

... we didn’t have a... rooster... then... a... rooster showed up... We added more chickens from a rescue... He wasn’t aggressive at all with them either... this brings our total hen count to 21. Now he is extremely aggressive to our new girls.... any help is greatly appreciated!!!!

Chickens have a society that is very different from the society that humans are familiar with. The problem here is the latest batch of new hens who for whatever reason are failing to recognise or honor your rooster's place at the head of the enlarged flock. I assume but I don't exactly know if this is because of an age difference between your new hens and your rooster but I think that it is best to make this assumption. Yes, I know that the pecking order is something that humans may find it hard to understand but that in no way means that the reality of the pecking order is not real.

 

[Dancing With Chickens]

Oh no! I would say that you could separate him in a dog crate for a few days, but f that doesn't work you should get rid of him. His pecking can cause cannibalism and pecking problems from your hens. Wish your injured hen a speedy recovery!

 

[Chickassan]

Honestly the best thing unless you can give him some major space is to replace him with a standard rooster who will deal with confinement and flock additions with a little more grace. Not knocking your guy but he is what he is and thats all he can be.

 

[NewMomma2017]

Thank you everyone for your help! We have 4 acres for the chickens to run around in with different vegetation types. The new hens are very sweet and docile ladies. They have never been around a roo before so they aren’t sure what to do with him. I’m sure that implied rudeness towards the rooster without them even knowing.

We will try to get a new rooster with some age and experience.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Thank you everyone for your help! We have 4 acres for the chickens to run around in with different vegetation types. The new hens are very sweet and docile ladies. They have never been around a roo before so they aren’t sure what to do with him. I’m sure that implied rudeness towards the rooster without them even knowing.... We will try to get a new rooster with some age and experience.

Why not build a tee-pee and put your rooster on a cord or string walk that way if the hens need or want to they can keep their distance from your rooster until such time as he matures and is able to impress the new hens with his chicken machismo.

The same problem will likely surface with any young rooster. So only get a new rooster with spurs at least 1 inch long. That way you can be reasonably sure that he is at least one year old and up to the task of being a flock master..