Should I add this cockerel to my flock?

[lazy gardener]

It depends on your flock goals. Do you want to breed feathered feet into your flock? Are you ok with future generations of chickens from this banty resulting in smaller hens and smaller eggs?

I would not choose to add a roo during the winter. I'd wait till spring, then add a LF roo who is a proven in terms of his temperament: not human aggressive, and treats the ladies nice.

Other questions to answer: do you have more than 4 s.f. in coop and 10 s.f. in run per bird? The dynamic changes involving adding any new bird, or adding a roo, or perhaps dealing with a broody and chicks in the future require more than the minimum recommended space.

 

[PirateGirl]

Thanks @lazy gardener for the input.

I do not aspire to breed, raise, hatch chicks whatsoever at this point in time with this flock. Current chicken goals are pets that produce eggs. So the thought of adding a rooster has nothing to do with genetics or breeding.

I had previously decided if any of my supposedly sexed pullets ended up being a cockerel that I'd just keep him, but I did in fact have all girls, so no cockerel/roosters as of yet.

Currently I have 20 square feet of coop with 5 ft available on the highest roost, 45-50 fully fenced square feet of run. Going to fence approximately another 700 square feet of yard in spring that the chickens can range in when we are home and when the dogs are about to protect them from the coyotes, but the chickens will not have 24 hour access to this larger area.

 

[lazy gardener]

I would not add him. You are already maxed out in your coop and run space.