Should I keep him?

[Mrs. K]

Vicker - take a good look at your coop/run. Do you have hideouts, escape routes, roosts and multiple feeders? That can really help chicken society.

However, the crowing if he is close to your house can be a problem. Mine is over 100 yards away, so the noise is easy to ignore. I would not like it close to the house.

MK

 

[Leon Rembowski]

Roosters are great for protecting your flock as well! You should keep him and see how he does if he's rude rehome him but if he's a good roo I think keep him .
I have an amazing rooster named blizzard and he's just a sweetest thing ever never attacked but it's still cautious and he doesn't pull the feathers off the ladies

Roosters Can be great protectors sometimes to the level of fearlessness of crazy. We had a Big barred rock that hated my wife and got testy with me often but other than that he was fearless. So I put him in the pen with the Buck Goats where he lived happily for quite a while then one morning I went to feed the goats and found 3 of our younger goats missing and 2 dead in the pen. I checked the goats and found evidence of a predator attack, a cougar had gotten in the pen and killed and left the two goats because they were too big to get over the fence and also there was a big pile of feathers at the edge of the fence. So it seams the rooster attacked or tried to attack the cat and lost. We later that day contacted the game warden who called a government trapper who came out that day and I helped him set his traps. He came and set the trapps at 7pm and at 9pm we had the cat. #160 tom that had a tracking collar and ear tag. A part of a research project that had been tracked from 80 miles away leaving a trail of destruction all along the way.
If that rooster had been the size of the cat I am sure he would have handed the cat his lunch and he would have gotten an extra ration in his food bucket. We have a lot of free range Roosters and most will walk up to me wanting to be petted but most all are quite protective of what they believe are their flock.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I'm struggling with an unintended rooster again right now. It seems I end up with one almost every year when I buy new "pullets". I've never made it through all the crowing and damage to hens from over-mating without getting rid of them in one way or another. But the COVID mess has made this year different. I'm hanging on to him for a while longer for a little procreation insurance. So far, the older hens are keeping him in check. If he starts causing the usual rooster problems for them, I plan to separate him and arrange conjugal visits when I need fertilized eggs.

Most hatcheries only guarantee 80-90% accuracy with females. When vent sexing, some male's done have a developed bump so they look female. Ironically some females may develop a small bump and be sent out as male

 

[unbaked pegga]

I agree, looks like a pullet.

yaay

 

[Vicker]

Vicker - take a good look at your coop/run. Do you have hideouts, escape routes, roosts and multiple feeders? That can really help chicken society.

However, the crowing if he is close to your house can be a problem. Mine is over 100 yards away, so the noise is easy to ignore. I would not like it close to the house.

Mrs. K, they have plenty of space for them to get away from each other. I have a very large area on our acreage that's fenced off for them and let them out to free range in the evenings. After I decided to give this rooster a chance, we came home to a buff with a lot of blood on her head. He was just too aggressive in his mating. He didn't do the little dance to see if they were interested. He just pounced. The buffs didn't resist, but he still held a firm grip on the comb or back of the head. I plan to build a separate coop and run to limit mating time with the next rooster if I end up with another one. I used to have a flock of Black Sumatra's. There were at least 3 roosters that never fought, never hurt the hens, and actually tried to protect the flock. Every breed of rooster since then has not protected them and has been solely focused on mating as soon as his feet hit the ground in the morning. The Sumatra's were just a small breed that laid small eggs, so I moved on to other breeds.