Nasty Mean Rooster HELP!!

[Duemig10]

Hi,
We have 1 mean rooster with 5 hens. The rooster is just mean and comes after me and my husband, but he will run from my dog. So needless to say when I go to let them out of the coop I bring my dog along with me everytime. If I get rid of the mean rooster and add a new rooster in with the hens, will they stop laying. My girls have been laying really well and I would not want them to stop, but if they are going to stop for a week or two that would be okay as long as I can get rid of Mr. Mean. Will the hens be okay with having a new rooster?

 

[augustwest]

I'm going through this now. We added a roo in November- now that he's come of age, he's a nasty mean boy and has to go. I just found someone to take him.

My own experience is that you don't need the roo at all. My girls had better production without the roo around.

When I have added a new member to the flock, I've seen a little production decrease (due to stress I assume) but only a bit.

Hope that helps.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Your hens do not need a rooster to lay.


If the new rooster you bring in (please be sure and quarantine him for 30 days minimum) is nice to the girls, there should be no interruption in laying. If he is hard or mean to the girls, they might stop laying for a bit until they all have adjusted.

 

[Duemig10]

We sell the fertile eggs from this flock, that is why I have the roo. I was thinking that they would maybe stop laying because we took Mr. Mean away and switched him for a different roo. The other roo is one of ours that we hatched and a friend of ours has much more land than we do so he has kept a few of our roo's for us.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Well in that case you do need a rooster.


When I introduce I new roo, I put him in a cage in the coop for a day or two (depending upon the roo). This lets the girls get to know him, without him trying to crazy breed everyone right away - so there is less running and yelling.


I also have less egg delay if the roo is over a year - closer to two years, as he is gentler on the hens than a young full of hormones cockerel.

 

[Duemig10]

Thank you both for your response. I just do not want to keep being nervous everytime I go to let him out that he is going to come after me.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

you don't even need a rooster, unless you want them to raise chicks, my mom has 13 hens and they are laying pretty good, they are a little bit old so they aren't laying as good as they could but it's only because they are old not because they don't have a rooster. Roosters are good pretty much only for chicks and protection. So if you get rid of (Mr. mean) they should keep laying. I have three questions how old are your girls, and how many egg's a day do you usually get, and what kind of chickens do you have???.

 

[Duemig10]

I have Orpington's, they are 9 months old and I get 4 or 5 eggs a day.

 

[schellie69]

I would take the mean rooster out at night after they coop and put the new one in. If he has been quarantine and is fine.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

There are WAY too many nice roosters in the world to put up with garbage like that. Especially Orps. I also wouldn't just give him to someone else and make it their problem. He needs to be done away with, IMO...

eta:
Also, selling hatching eggs or chicks that have been bred by a mean rooster just makes more mean roosters.