Moving 5.5 old month rooster to a new home

[iren1805]

Hi there,
I’m in city limit where roosters not allowed, got complains and found a new home for my sweet baby rooster.
Now my concern is what are his survival chances at his new home. Right now he is with 2 adult chickens, one of whom raised him and 3 other chickens. So it’s him , 2 older and 3 his age chickens. Now he moves to a huge flock of chickens and roosters. He looks big, but he is young. How is the best to introduce him to a new family? I heard he might be killed. We want him to live. What are the steps we can take to insure the success of this transition. Moving him with one of the chickens his age which he familiar with can help ? Thank you!

 

[aart]

Moving him with one of the chickens his age which he familiar with can help ?

Maybe, always best to integrate more than one bird.
But in reality, what the new owners do is up to them...let him go and move on.

 

[azygous]

He has a good chance of adjusting and fitting in due to his age. He'll be fine as long as there's plenty of room for him to run away from trouble.

 

[Acre4Me]

If there is plenty of space, and plenty of girls, AND he has good chicken instincts, he will keep out of the way as best he can. He will try to mate where possible. He will possibly fight with other roosters, and learn where he goes in the pecking order.

so, hopefully the new home has many pullets/hens- hoping for approx 10 per male -which may lessen the competition for mating. Also, hopefully new home has several feed and water stations (even if they free range), so he can eat when he gets a chance.

otherwise, I agree with @aart - once he’s their chicken, let it go.

we gave a male chicken to a neighbor. The male was about 3.5-4 months old. The pullets were about 6 weeks older (no other males present). Wow! Those girls sure gave him a hard time for about 4-6 weeks, but he could get away and had good chicken instincts. Neighbor did ask if they chose to not keep him and let him go free on another larger property, if we would be upset. Nope, not at all bc he was no longer ours. So far, that male continues to reside with that flock, and has been moving up the pecking order -still fights with dominant hen, so he’s got a little ways to go.

 

[Duck_life]

If I'm re-homing an animal I just make the people promise they can't use them for meat or I won't let them buy it. If you didn't say they can't use them for meat then I don't see why they can't.

 

[aart]

If I'm re-homing an animal I just make the people promise they can't use them for meat or I won't let them buy it.

That's rather unreasonable...plus how would you ever follow up to know?

 

[Chickassan]

Hungry people tend to be big fat liars too.

That's rather unreasonable...plus how would you ever follow up to know?

 

[Duck_life]

That's rather unreasonable...plus how would you ever follow up to know?

I guess its better knowing you did everything you could to prevent it from being killed. In an Ad I put to good home only, when they take the animal I at least know I did something to try and prevent it from being meat.