I don't know about this rooster.

[CrazyTalk]

Two weeks of quarantine is better than no quarantine - and contact through a fence isn't nearly as bad as direct contact - no mounting, n o pecking, and no shedding bacteria/virus/worms in their space.

 

[Mrs. K]

Fiddle, I would get him in there with the girls. The quarantine is broken, what is the point of keeping them separated?

Mrs K

 

[WthrLady]

I want the girls to get used to him being around. They act like they want to kill him! Lol.

 

[Mrs. K]

Truthfully, the first time I introduced a mature rooster, he had been the low rooster at a neighbor and was pretty beat up. Feathers missing in places from losing too many fights. When I turned him lose in the coop, the top hen did attack him, and knocked him down, but he jumped up and thumped her. I swear, Butter turned and looked at me with the expression, "This this the BEST you can do???" However, by the next day they were all in love. He healed up and was quite pretty.

If he is full grown, don't worry, a single rooster is one of the easier introductions you can do.

But do it as you see fit, I just hate separate birds, I don't think it is good for them, and a royal pain to keep, as they keep trying so hard to get together.


Mrs K

 

[WthrLady]

They're all abt 6 months

 

[WthrLady]

just look at him!

 

[chickengeorgeto]

I don't see a rooster in your pictures. All I see is a 4 to 5 month old cockerel or stag.

A strict diet of organic soy imho is animal cruelty. His feathers are not very well developed and they look dull and ratty. His comb is dull and his waddles or gills look the same. I think that from his looks that he has serious protein deficiency issues.

Roosters do not automatically rule the roost, they must first impose themselves on the flock. That is very likely the reason he seems frightened of your hens. His weakened condition isn't helping matters any. After he becomes sexually mature this is likely to change. Unfortunately no progress can be made now without first integrating him (either willingly or by force) into your flock of hens so that nature can take her course.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

I want the girls to get used to him being around. They act like they want to kill him! Lol.

This is what the pecking order commands a chicken to do, kill rival chickens of unknown pedigree.


Keeping them separate is not going to change the color of one scale on this legs.

 

[WthrLady]

I don't see a rooster in your pictures.  All I see is a 4 to 5 month old cockerel or stag.

A strict diet of organic soy imho is animal cruelty.  His feathers are not very well developed and they look dull and ratty.  His comb is dull and his waddles or gills look the same.  I think that from his looks that he has serious protein deficiency issues.

Roosters do not automatically rule the roost, they must first impose themselves on the flock.  That is very likely the reason he seems frightened of your hens.  His weakened condition isn't helping matters any.   After he becomes sexually mature this is likely to change.  Unfortunately no progress can be made now without first integrating him (either willingly or by force) into your flock of hens so that nature can take her course.

don't beat the rescuer!

Ok...so a juvenile rooster, excuse my not knowing the younger males were called anything different.

I'm not the one feeding him that!

He's on full deliciousness protein rich yummy town at my house!

 

[roseyred]

Lol

UPDATE!

Well I went out to open the doors on his coop to let it fully air and see sun (pop door to run was already open), and OUT POPPED SCOUT!

I put his wet pellet crumbles in his bowl and he ate some, then he jumped out of the coop and over the electric fence hot wires.

He went over to the hen's yard.  The girls were napping in the coop.  (They have a coop, a covered, plastic wind break run, and a connected open air run/play pen.  He circled their whole area once, and the girls came out to see what was up.

I told myself that after week two, if he looked and acted ok, then I was going to let him have visual access, but not physical play time with them.  Well, darned if that bird didn't come alive !!!! 

HE puffed himself up, threw up his collar and the ladies went wild!  We were one step away from panties and bras being thrown on stage !   He spent, GET THIS, 45 minutes outside their playpen, talking to them, SCRATCHING for food, taking a DUST BATH - actually several, and going on around the compound patrol!!!

OMG he IS alive !

He's just been bored and LONELY!!!!!

After 45 minutes of prancing and eating, and digging and walking through snow, he wandered back to his coop for water and some more mashed food.

There just might be hope yet!!

This def lit up my day hahha good for him. Get those chickies