Rooster attacking older hens

[Carladelida]

Hi Chicken friends! Ty for helping me so much!
My Roo is definitely mean/doesn't like my older hens (I have 3 of them and 9 younger/same age as him)
I separated the older 3 because one of them is also an egg eater. I let one out today to see what Roo would do and he immediately chased hen into coop, she eventually came out and he literally pinned her so hard into the ground, she didn't move for a minute with her face in the dirt, I swore I almost witnessed a murder. But she got up fine and very docile.
I put her back with the older ones scared that would happen again and be worse.
Now I'm worried if I should have let her be and maybe he was reestablishing pecking order? Idk.
Should I keep trying to let older hens out to try to reintegrate them with the younger/more accepted hens or should I let all the older hens out and lock up Roo? I'm just worried that I'll loose Roo's trust and that he would start attacking me after I let him out from being locked up.
TIA!!

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

Hi Chicken friends! Ty for helping me so much!
My Roo is definitely mean/doesn't like my older hens (I have 3 of them and 9 younger/same age as him)
I separated the older 3 because one of them is also an egg eater. I let one out today to see what Roo would do and he immediately chased hen into coop, she eventually came out and he literally pinned her so hard into the ground, she didn't move for a minute with her face in the dirt, I swore I almost witnessed a murder. But she got up fine and very docile.
I put her back with the older ones scared that would happen again and be worse.
Now I'm worried if I should have let her be and maybe he was reestablishing pecking order? Idk.
Should I keep trying to let older hens out to try to reintegrate them with the younger/more accepted hens or should I let all the older hens out and lock up Roo? I'm just worried that I'll loose Roo's trust and that he would start attacking me after I let him out from being locked up.
TIA!!

He’s just super happy to have a mate and has no manners so instead of courting them he’s unconsentously mating with them and the hens are not happy about it. They should be fine once his testosterone goes down and they begin to reastiblish the pecking order.

 

[Carladelida]

He’s just super happy to have a mate and has no manners so instead of courting them he’s unconsentously mating with them and the hens are not happy about it. They should be fine once his testosterone goes down and they begin to reastiblish the pecking order.

Should I let the older hens out one at a time?
I'm also dealing with an egg eater which is one of the older hens. When he goes to chase/mate with an older one, they run into the coop and hide in there and then start eating the eggs, so I'm also trying to avoid that.
He doesn't chase the other 9 around that aggressively. And when the older ones to run into the coop, he seems to be content with them being out of sight.

 

[Ridgerunner]

How old is he? To me this sounds like a reasonably mature cockerel trying to become flock master over those three and you won't let him. As long as no one is physically being injured (basically no blood) I suggest letting them work it out.

We all have our ways to try to solve different problems. To me an egg eater is a one that purposely opens eggs to eat them. Many chickens will eat an egg that is already open, I don't have a problem with that.
There are several suggestions of how to break a hen from being an egg eater. Some of them might work some of the time. My approach is to eat the egg eater before she teaches others to open eggs to eat them. If you are keeping them as pets it might be worth it to you for her to eat the eggs. But if you are keeping them for eggs you might see a net gain in usable eggs by getting rid of an egg eater.

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

Should I let the older hens out one at a time?
I'm also dealing with an egg eater which is one of the older hens. When he goes to chase/mate with an older one, they run into the coop and hide in there and then start eating the eggs, so I'm also trying to avoid that.
He doesn't chase the other 9 around that aggressively. And when the older ones to run into the coop, he seems to be content with them being out of sight.

It's actually a good sign that he isn't like that with the younger ones. this means he is likely to be a good father, if he ever settles down and actually earns the right to mate your older hens.