Over eager cockerel?

[Island Chick]

Sorry for the long post, trying to get a much background info as possible.

So I have a 13 week old EE who has been trying to mount my other pullets since he was 8 or 9 weeks old. I have 11 other pullets free ranging with him and will soon be introducing 6 more pullets and a rooster but they are still inside the laundry room. I had two sebright roosters but after suddenly refusing to let my 6 slightly younger golden sex links into the coop at night and dragging them out by the scruff of their neck if they got in, they had to go.

He has never crowed, is very friendly and until yesterday I had no issues with keeping him around. Well I had flip flops on and guess my hot pink nail polish was a bit too exciting as he grabbed my toe and started rubbing against the ground! The pullets never let him actually mount them and my BO girl really gets after him once he lets go. But he still manages to grab their necks and flop about next to them. I have seen him once actually get up on top of one, but he quickly fell off when she freaked out and then angrily chased him around the yard, pecking him on the head the whole time.

So if he is this excited about future duties, is he likely to turn into a nasty rooster? Or one that goes after people since apparently I am fair game as well? He lets me pick him up, jumps into my lap to take naps, and follows me around when I do yard work etc. I think he is going to be rather pretty so that helped my decision to keep him. Any thoughts? Should I just wait and see? Or should I be doing something different to stop his attempts?

 

[sourland]

Think teenaged boy with raging hormones. "It" is all that he is thinking about at the present time. His amorous attempts towards you should forcefully be thwarted. You are bigger, and he needs to regard you as the dominant rooster not part of his harem.

 

[Island Chick]

I would have gotten after him, had I not been almost laughing thinking to myself what the heck is going on. Once I figured it out he was done. Is it normal for them to start so young? I was surprised he started trying at 8 weeks. He was supposed to be a pullet, but that chance went out the door around 4 weeks old when he got a nice red comb.

 

[MADZ of Animal]

KEEP HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[LTygress]

He won't be a problem for people once the hens let him on (or he learns how to control them). Right now he is going for almost anything, but it will slow down when he realizes who he can have. But you definitely want to keep him if this is how he acts with them - he's likely to have a VERY high fertility rate with those hens!

Just avoid flip flops around him for now, lol!