Help, rooster won't stay home

[Morgan8996]

I have a black birchen maran but he keeps leaving my hens for our neighbors down the road and getting him back all the time is getting old. Had him since march and he's always stayed around till last week. He will be 1 in October. I've tried to keep him in the coop/run for a couple days but he just keeps running back down the road. Help???? My hens are always free range except when I lock up the coop in the evening. I don't want to keep my rooster up while my hens are in the yard.

 

[Kiki]

If you can't keep him in your own yard, you should cage him up.
Someone is going to either steal him or worse kill him if he keeps escaping.

 

[Chickassan]

You might have to fence your yard, that's really a win all the way around. Keep your rooster home keep other stuff out. If I didn't have one id have a billion roosters by now lol!

 

[rebrascora]

Another option might be to tether him by a leg in an area where he has shelter and food and water.

 

[LadyRed76]

Find a treat he LOVES....hand it to him when he's in the coop in the evening,make a faint calling sound as you give it to him..like...here rooo... Or chick chick chick....do that for a week...then when he's out call him an feed him his treat.
You can train a chicken sorta like a dog. It comes to the call for the treat.
I trained mine to come to my call,so if they go in neighbor's yard..I just call them back with a treat.
Good Luck!

 

[Chickassan]

Shackles, I like the way you think.

Another option might be to tether him by a leg in an area where he has shelter and food and water.

 

[The Moonshiner]

The coming when called isn't going to work if he's going down the road.
I haven't had an issue in years but before I had it all fenced I had a couple and many of theirs coming up here.
Containment was the only answer. From experience if you don't do something soon there's a good chance he will end up taking some hens with him then sooner or later they won't come back. Either staying there or getting taken by something.

 

[aart]

Odd...only the cockerel goes down the road?
Do you have other males in your flock?

 

[sourland]

Now that he has found the neighbor girls, he will not voluntarily stay home - it's a male thing. Tethering or fencing are probably your only choices.

 

[lazy gardener]

Do neighbors have a flock? If so, you're gonna have to pen him. Letting him mingle with an other flock is both making him into a neighborhood nuisance, and also opening the door way to disease transmission between flocks. If I were your neighbor, I'd first speak to you, then if that didn't keep him home, I'd be plugging in my crock pot, or getting ready to fertilize a rose bush.