Will Rooster Be Ok With Newborn Chicks?

[Tesharnerose]

No. The chick did not scalp itself. The tissue from the entire back of the head was missing, no skin flap. The skin was eaten. The mesh wasn't the small gauge. The rooster had a bad habit of biting.

Just because you have a friendly roo, doesn't mean he won't be curious or reactive and injure a chick by accident. Chicks are perfectly safe around roosters until the day something happens to indicate they aren't.

Currently, I have two perfectly well behaved roosters that wouldn't hurt anything. But I don't take the chance that one time one might accidentally hurt a chick. That would be one time too many.

Can you say with complete certainty a lovely roo absolutely wouldn't hurt a chick accidentally?

My rooster that I'd in the coop with my broody hen, he won't even eat a worm... he sits next to worms, he is a gentle giant. Should I let him help with raising his chicks? Or is it too ricky? I have around 50 eggs I don't mind to loose a couple. And can ducklings be In a chicken flock? I have 4 duck eggs fork my cucks and hey are int eh incubator with some chicken eggs, will they grow up like chickens (obvi they need other stuff ik what I'm doing )

 

[azygous]

Just because a rooster treats worms with respect doesn't mean he will do the same with baby chicks. You should assume nothing when it comes to individual chicken behavior. That said, roosters have the capability to care for chicks. But you need to observe his behavior with chicks before you leave him alone with them. The same goes for hens. They have been known to peck to death another hen's chick.