Introducing my dominant rooster back to the flock with other roosters after being isolated from an injury

[Fishnbully]

I sent this before adding what happened and he is recovered and needs to be let out. He was attacked by a dog. I have had him cooped up since Thanksgiving to heal completely. The two roosters below him are still maturing and they are his sons. How can I let him go back to the flock. He has been in full view of the flock for over a month.

 

[nicalandia]

Don't do it just yet..! He might lose to the others.

 

[Fishnbully]

Don't do it just yet..! He might lose to the others.

He is completely healed. I was just sharing the horrible injury from the dog grabbing his backside. My chickens roam free. They found me and I fed them one day and they never left.

 

[nicalandia]

They found me and I fed them one day and they never left.

Are you kidding me? Do you mean to tell me that one day you were just going about your business and some chickens just showed up to your property and never left? Where do you live??

 

[Fishnbully]

Are you kidding me? Do you mean to tell me that one day you were just going about your business and some chickens just showed up to your property and never left? Where do you live??

Fla Keys (Islamorada)! Chickens are everywhere! My momma hen and my big rooster showed up during COVID. I feed them and they stayed. Now I have all their children. Will I be able to release him back with the others?

 

[Mrs. K]

Well, they don't call it cockfighting for nothing. Can you catch the young cockerels?

The thing is, while you have kept this boy in captivity, the world outside of this has become strange, he has become a stranger to it. If you turn him out, most likely, the young cockerels are at very least going to take him on. So he is unsure of himself in a strange territory, and is being attacked, maybe ganged.

So if you could catch the two young boys, and just let the old man out to look at the world and find some ladies, and kind of get settled, then let the boys back out and cross your fingers.

It might work, but it might not.

MRs K

 

[Fishnbully]

Well, they don't call it cockfighting for nothing. Can you catch the young cockerels?

The thing is, while you have kept this boy in captivity, the world outside of this has become strange, he has become a stranger to it. If you turn him out, most likely, the young cockerels are at very least going to take him on. So he is unsure of himself in a strange territory, and is being attacked, maybe ganged.

So if you could catch the two young boys, and just let the old man out to look at the world and find some ladies, and kind of get settled, then let the boys back out and cross your fingers.

It might work, but it might not.

MRs K

Thanks for the advice. He has been in view of them the whole time? Guessing he should get a new home.

 

[Fishnbully]

Well, they don't call it cockfighting for nothing. Can you catch the young cockerels?

The thing is, while you have kept this boy in captivity, the world outside of this has become strange, he has become a stranger to it. If you turn him out, most likely, the young cockerels are at very least going to take him on. So he is unsure of himself in a strange territory, and is being attacked, maybe ganged.

So if you could catch the two young boys, and just let the old man out to look at the world and find some ladies, and kind of get settled, then let the boys back out and cross your fingers.

It might work, but it might not.

MRs K

I turned him loose 2 mornings ago. They took him back!!! He recovered in their roosting area. Thet never lost sight of him, and he always saw them. He had complete memory of the territory and feeding area. They were off on the morning walk about when I let him out. He crowed and called them back. He started to walk towards the normal route and met them halfway. The pictures are them walking back to my house. He is the one with lack of fancy tail feathers. So far so good!

 

[Mrs. K]

How did you keep him in view the whole time!

That is NOT what I would have expected. As RR says, they are animals and who knows how they will react.

 

[jburts]

I turned him loose 2 mornings ago. They took him back!!! He recovered in their roosting area. Thet never lost sight of him, and he always saw them. He had complete memory of the territory and feeding area. They were off on the morning walk about when I let him out. He crowed and called them back. He started to walk towards the normal route and met them halfway. The pictures are them walking back to my house. He is the one with lack of fancy tail feathers. So far so good!

Gives me hope one of my hens before Christmas could not walk had to bring her in the house and next day she was doing better and she laid an egg which she had not laid since summer and she is 5 years old, she is all better but could not put her back in they gained up on her so since Christmas now she is in kennel in the run so they can see each other the next step is outside when I have some nice days. They will have to be outside together maybe for a couple of weeks then trial run into the coop.