Golden Brahma 64
Songster
Thank you all for the advise, out he goes just be on the safe side as I will not be around tomorrow during the day to keep an eye on them!
I know you've already decided, but in eleven years of total experience with hatching chicks under a broody (bantams when I was a kid, standards now that I've finally got a good broody hen population going) I have never had a rooster hurt a chick, aside from a minor peck when they got in the way at feeding time. Why would they? Chances are, some of those chicks are their babies.
Unrelated hens are a much greater danger to the chicks than roosters will ever be.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/rooster-eating-baby-chicks.628165/
As I said, they are animals. We don’t know what they are capable of.