Rooster being overly “attentive”

[Gifblaur]

Good morning everybody. I’ve got a concerning situation developing with my one of my favorite boys. He’s about a year or so old now so I’m hoping this is a phase but I’m uncertain and scared because his behavior has changed. Mr Two Dott is a big brahma boy that lives with 6 older pullets just about egg laying age and 7 pullets around 9 weeks and 3 cockerels( I really feel like I could win the lottery). He’s been really quite a gentleman to the little ones and only recently mounting the oldest girls. But this last week I’m starting to notice an escalation in behavior that I think might be a bad sign. It started with him trying to go after my wife’s and my feet. Wing dance and all. That by itself isn’t terribly odd for him but the difference is that showing him whose boss all of a sudden no longer works. He retreats for a bit and then wants to try again. Worse even is that the last two mornings he’s been really trying to mount my younger girls and he’s really quite aggressive about it. Unfortunately he seems to be mostly targeting my beautiful little Cemanis and I’m worried someone is going to get hurt. For right now he’s out free ranging and the girls are in their run while I figure out what to do. Is separating him in his dog crate for a few more weeks while everyone matures the proper thing here or are these all signs of a far too aggressive rooster?

I appreciate any help I can get. And if anyone needs more details I’m happy to give em.

 

[aart]

I'd remove the younger males from the mix, see if that helps.

 

[Gifblaur]

Even though he has zero interest in them? He doesn’t interact with them at all outside of pointing out particularly good food. My Cemani boy is almost always at his side when possible. I’d hate to ruin that relationship unless I have to.

 

[aart]

Even though he has zero interest in them? He doesn’t interact with them at all outside of pointing out particularly good food. My Cemani boy is almost always at his side when possible. I’d hate to ruin that relationship unless I have to.

I guess maybe 9 weeks is too young to be any competition.

What are your long term goals?
Do you need multiple males?
Could be your Brahma boy is no longer going to be dominated by you and my need to go.

 

[Gifblaur]

The Cemanis at some point are going to have their own colony but otherwise there’s no NEED for multiple roosters, it’s just been our really bad luck. The two Wyandotte boys are my wife’s boys and is quite attached to them so we’ve been trying to figure out what to do with them. Some of the hope initially was that big boy would just be top Roo and keep the boys in check. Two dotts brother Zam has his 3 girls in a separate run and so far hasn’t exhibited any of his brothers aggressive tendencies.