Sigh.. two separate flocks? Gomes the rotten rooster!

[z3lda3]

Why can’t everyone just get along?? I’ve got 4 12 week hens, they’re great, eating, roosting and well more eating. 2 legbars sweet little timid things about 7 weeks old, 2 bantams 8/9 weeks old, and 2 babies about 3/4 weeks old. Everyone gets along fine (I watch my bigger hens of course, just because they’re so much bigger). Because all my chickados are different ages, I’m now trying to integrate everybody. My big gals have a separate coop for now again just because of their size. I get all the chicken in the yard, and everyone is fine except my rooster. Dear lord! He’s a 9 week old bantam. He’s super ppl friendly, and is very protective of the flock as a whole. Like if one of them makes an odd noise he comes running. But he has rotten tendencies. Not rotten- it’s like he has all this rooster hormones and has no idea what is appropriate. Like there’s one particular legbar-who is bigger than him- he mounts ALL the time! She hates it, she screams and runs off and hides. He does the same thing to Morticia, the female bantam, but she fights back. He charges all chesty at my bigger hens, and you know they’ll eat him for breakfast, (I use a pool noodle to separate them). He absolutely isn’t having the babies around. Even though they’re the same size he is. So when we’re out in the yard, everyone is doing their chicken thing and I have to hold Gomez, or put him back in his run. The legbars, the other bantam gets along fine with the babies, even my hens are kind of like eh whatever. Am I going to have to have 2 flocks? Bantams and standards? Or will he calm down? He’s not ‘injuring’ them/no blood or missing feathers, but still, it’s got to be stressful for them. Suggestions?

 

[sourland]

I'd put him in with the 'Big Gals' and allow them to educate him. Some of the best flock roosters are those taught their manners from the adult hens.

 

[Buttercup is the best]

I'd put him in with the 'Big Gals' and allow them to educate him. Some of the best flock roosters are those taught their manners from the adult hens.

that sounds like a great idea. he needs to be put in his place and taught not to be a bigshot. your chickens will figure out their pecking order sooner than later.

 

[z3lda3]

I'd put him in with the 'Big Gals' and allow them to educate him. Some of the best flock roosters are those taught their manners from the adult hens.

My son said the same thing. Sheryl is my ‘head hen’ and my son said ‘let Sheryl teach him he’s not God of chicken world’. I’d be scared she’d kill him. But maybe a good peck or two would put some of his fire out.