How to add a cockerel to flock of pullets

[aart]

Until the pullets color up to indicate they are getting ready to lay a cockerel/ rooster will have minimal interest in them.

Ha! If only that were true!
Most cockerels are not that savvy.

 

[Fairview01]

Ha! If only that were true!
Most cockerels are not that savvy.

Overall I think there is much ado about nothing when it comes to adding chickens to the flock. The more we're involved the worse and longer the turmoil persists. Animals 8n general are better at working out these things than we are.

Even pullets that aren't ready can give a young clumsy cockerel what for.

 

[Peepsi]

Perhaps you should read this thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/roo-too-rough-hens-don’t-submit.1312808/

It's funny that both yours and that one showed up on the same page. Four pullets for one rooster is too few. The rooster will over-mate them, like the one in the above thread. I vote no rooster, unless you can get more pullets, and make your coop and run bigger as well. If you can't, then no rooster.

 

[aart]

Overall I think there is much ado about nothing when it comes to adding chickens to the flock. The more we're involved the worse and longer the turmoil persists. Animals 8n general are better at working out these things than we are.

That can be true...and also not true.
Depends on the birds involved and the space available.
Here we are often presented with a too small confined space scenario.
So other options are offered.

Even pullets that aren't ready can give a young clumsy cockerel what for.

True that some pullets can handle a cockerels advances,
have had a few pullets that kicked a cockerels butt
...but again, it's not always the case and can depend on the birds involved and the space available.

 

[Fairview01]

That can be true...and also not true.
Depends on the birds involved and the space available.
Here we are often presented with a too small confined space scenario.
So other options are offered.


True that some pullets can handle a cockerels advances,
have had a few pullets that kicked a cockerels butt
...but again, it's not always the case and can depend on the birds involved and the space available.

My LFW cornish are hard core.