The sissy Roo named Roy

[koko081012]

Hello!

I am new here (today is my first day). I have read a bit about this issue.. but what I read would happen didnt happen.. so heres the story.

I originally just wanted Hens. I went to the store I grabbed 12 hens they were only labeled as sexed chickens. I believe they are black stars. they seem pretty docile and are friendly with the kids and let you pet them, but prefer to be left alone. My husband and I decided we would try and incubate to sell chicks in the spring so we decided to get a rooster. My sister got chickens right around the same time we did, hers were not sexed, and they had 5 roosters in their flock. She gave me one of her roosters, and he is super friendly, he loves to be held, coddled and runs to me when I open the coop. before I just threw him into the coop I found a question asked on here on how to introduce the roosters to the chickens, and the general thought was, just put him in there, the top hen will "teach him some manners" and then the rooster will eventually claim his place as the dominate one, and do his duty to protect and fertilize my eggs. So I put him in there, but the girls are not happy. they aren't beating him up super bad as long as he keeps to himself they ignore his existence, but if he gets near the others... they peck at him until he gets back into his hiding corner, or on top of the nesting boxes, or if they are inside he runs outside vice versa. they have all ganged up on him, and in come cases i have seen 2 hens protecting him. but for the most part he just hides in a corner and buries his head. So.. because i don't have a cage to put him in.. inside the coop, i have the girls inside and him outside.. I have closed the opening to the barn with a wire fence. so they can see each other but he wont go near the opening. will i have to do the side by side thing with him for a month or so before letting him loose with them again? and if so.. will he ever claim his dominance? if not and i gave him back to my sister, would her chickens beat him up.. since he has been gone for about a week or so? what should i do with this sissy roo! any help would be apperciated thank you! the Hens have not layed any eggs yet. and shouldnt until the fall.. we got them as chicks in april/may 2015. thanks again

 

[koko081012]

protect the hens and fertilize the eggs*

 

[Den in Penn]

How old are the chickens? Maturity matters.

 

[koko081012]

3 to 4 months old.

 

[donrae]

He's still just a baby. You wouldn't expect a 12 year old boy to act like a mature man, that's pretty much what you've got right now. Just give him time. By fall he'll be mature and the leader of the flock.

 

[123RedBeard]

Take the two pullets that seemed to protect him, and put just those two with him, and see how it goes ... After he gets use to them for a week or so ... Add a few more on his side of the fence ...

12:1 is gonna be hard to intergrate all at once ... Inch by inch, life's a cinch, yard by yards, it's just too hard!

 

[koko081012]

thank you! i had considered only having 2 out with him at time but was unsure of how that would go once i added more and more. I grew up on a chicken farm but we never did any of this adding chickens business they were meat chickens and we had about 100 of them at a time.

 

[koko081012]

he is still young but the girls are still a month younger then him. he is bigger then they are.. i thought maybe he would still have some pull. thank you for the response its apperciated!

 

[Weehopper]

Not sure this will work, but might be worth a try. Leave him outside in his area and catch a hen from the other side and put her in with him. Take the hen to the rooster. If all goes well, drop another hen in there, and so on. The reason I make this suggestion is that Roosters are territorial. Possibly, dropping him into the girl's territory freaks him out. When I was raising rabbits, you always took the doe to the buck for a breeding. If you took the buck to the doe a huge fight would happen, with the buck getting the worst end of it.
Your roo may be a gentleman and has no desire to fight a hen. Dunno if this will help, but might be worth a try.