So here I was thinking how happy and content I am with my nine hens and one rooster, when I went out the other morning to find a NEW ROOSTER in the yard. He was hanging around with my three new young Easter Eggers but he legged it pretty quick when I stepped out of the house. Everyone free-ranges over our 1-acre lot, and the last few days I've seen him usually all the way at the front, while everyone else mostly stays around the back 2/3.
Everything's been fine so far, but I'm a bit worried about what will happen if the new guy keeps hanging around. He's gorgeous, looks like the magnificent fighting cocks they have round here, he's very shy and I think he might be quite young. He also seems to have something wrong with one of his wings, it hangs down all wonky and wrong-looking. Our rooster on the other hand is a small, scruffy silkie mix. He's tiny and daft-looking, but he's quite willing to put up a fight and thinks nothing of attacking me when I walk past. Kind of like the Scrappy Doo of roosters.
What would you do? Just wait and see what happens, or try to (somehow) get rid of the new roo before they get in a fight? I'd love to "adopt" him but I'm not sure that's such a good idea...
Everything's been fine so far, but I'm a bit worried about what will happen if the new guy keeps hanging around. He's gorgeous, looks like the magnificent fighting cocks they have round here, he's very shy and I think he might be quite young. He also seems to have something wrong with one of his wings, it hangs down all wonky and wrong-looking. Our rooster on the other hand is a small, scruffy silkie mix. He's tiny and daft-looking, but he's quite willing to put up a fight and thinks nothing of attacking me when I walk past. Kind of like the Scrappy Doo of roosters.
What would you do? Just wait and see what happens, or try to (somehow) get rid of the new roo before they get in a fight? I'd love to "adopt" him but I'm not sure that's such a good idea...