How to raise chick roosters/pullets along side an adult rooster?

[Robind15]

Hey,
I currently have 1 Brahmamerucana rooster and 22 hens. I wanted to expand my flock even more. I bought 12 pullet chicks and 2 rooster chicks. I got a Amerucana and Welsummer rooster.

Obviously when chicks are of age to go outside, I put their cage against the big coop for them to safely mingle through a fence with the adults.

There is plenty of hens food water and room for the roosters to have when it’s time for them all to be together.

If I do this will I have rooster problems as the young ones grow up?

Will they young respect the older one in due time?

What are some helpful tips to give me to keep peace with roosters?

 

[Mamatomany123]

That's all going to depend on the roosters. Some roosters do fine with just 10 hens. Some don't. I've seen where people have 40 hens and can't have more than 1 rooster.

 

[Robind15]

That's all going to depend on the roosters. Some roosters do fine with just 10 hens. Some don't. I've seen where people have 40 hens and can't have more than 1 rooster.

My Brahma rooster is 10months and really chill. I heard amerucana and welsummer roosters are nice as well that’s why I bought them.

I figured while the young roosters are growing up and are finally in the big coop the pecking order will kick in. Everyone will determine their spot and be ok as they get older.

Does that sound like a good plan?

 

[3KillerBs]

There are no guarantees with roosters.

I personally found that my senior cockerel took a big-brother interest in the chicks I raised -- hanging out near them during the integration process and, according to my son who saw it while I was at work, escorting them during their first trip out of the coop into the run.

 

[Robind15]

There are no guarantees with roosters.

I personally found that my senior cockerel took a big-brother interest in the chicks I raised -- hanging out near them during the integration process and, according to my son who saw it while I was at work, escorting them during their first trip out of the coop into the run.

Ugh that sounds awesome. I can only hope for that.

 

[3KillerBs]

Ugh that sounds awesome. I can only hope for that.

With them at 11 and 7 months old I still have no guarantees on the joint good behavior lasting.

Ludwig, the senior, is still larger (and may always be taller since he's a Langshan), but Rameses, the Blue Australorp, is growing fast and seems to have a more assertive personality.

 

[Robind15]

With them at 11 and 7 months old I still have no guarantees on the joint good behavior lasting.

Ludwig, the senior, is still larger (and may always be taller since he's a Langshan), but Rameses, the Blue Australorp, is growing fast and seems to have a more assertive personality.

Okay! So have them mingle a lot while they’re growing up and hope for good personalities?

 

[3KillerBs]

Okay! So have them mingle a lot while they’re growing up and hope for good personalities?

Basically.

With proper see-don't-touch integration, of course.

Cockerels are always a gamble. Some are completely laid back, some start fighting as chicks in the brooder.

 

[Robind15]

Yeah if that happens in the brooder. It’s time for a new home. I don’t tolerate that in my coop.

Basically.

With proper see-don't-touch integration, of course.

Cockerels are always a gamble. Some are completely laid back, some start fighting as chicks in the brooder.

 

[RoosterHuggerLiz]

I had a flock of seven hens with four roosters, weirdly enough one of them kept to himself and never mounted hens because he was an elderly rescue, two of them were young and rambunctious but they barely ever mounted the hens (one New Hampshire and one polish) and the last one was a Sea Bright rooster who is absolutely obsessed with an orpington hen he was so tiny he never hurt her (his name was Napoleon)

It really just depends on the birds