Would 8 days of quarantine be enough for a new rooster?

[CHlCKEN]

It is a fundamental fact that you can never definitively say a bird is perfectly healthy. There is, and always will be, a chance that a bird is sick or a carrier. You must take the proper precautions to prevent something disastrous occurring from that. It’s irresponsible and ignorant not to

 

[BantyChooks]

The chances of the rooster having an illness is EXTREMELY rare.

Unfortunately, it’s not. My flock got MG and lice from new birds that looked healthy and happy.
We all hope that new birds will be in perfect shape, but some illnesses hide for a while and for me, that had consequences for the rest of my flock. I wonder how many birds I wouldn’t have had to cull if I had only quarantined.
I share this as hopefully a real life example to demonstrate the importance of quarantine. And beautiful rooster, OP!

 

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[Danish aseels]

Please don't fight , I myself usually quarantine for at least 15 days, and ideally a month or more.

I would have at least wanted him quarantined for 15 days, but he is just an escaped artist.

Yesterday in the evening when I went to check up on him he wasn't in his pen, I freaked out and started to frantically search for him and found him on the other side of my property sitting on top of my run/main cage.
Knowing he is able to get out of his cage I tied him to a tie cord that was attached to a stake in the ground thinking it would keep him in place but to my surprise he escaped again , I found him outside of my run still tied to the tiecord and stake, he had dragged it along.

Now since he looks healthy and has interacted with my other birds twice on accident I was thinking of just introducing him to my flock, I have treated him for worms and lice(I do this on the first day I get new birds)

 

[BantyChooks]

Please don't fight , I myself usually quarantine for at least 15 days, and ideally a month or more.

I would have at least wanted him quarantined for 15 days, but he is just an escaped artist.

Yesterday in the evening when I went to check up on him he wasn't in his pen, I freaked out and started to frantically search for him and found him on the other side of my property sitting on top of my run/main cage.
Knowing he is able to get out of his cage I tied him to a tie cord that was attached to a stake in the ground thinking it would keep him in place but to my surprise he escaped again , I found him outside of my run still tied to the tiecord and stake, he had dragged it along.

Now since he looks healthy and has interacted with my other birds twice on accident I was thinking of just introducing him to my flock, I have treated him for worms and lice(I do this on the first day I get new birds)

Makes sense. Do you know how he got out of his pen/is it fixable? Glad to hear you've treated him for worms/lice already, great for some peace of mind! I would recommend keeping him quarantined still if you can fix his pen somehow, but given he's already exposed the others I would understand if you decided to put him in now. (Finding proper quarantine pens can be hard - at one point, I had my new birds in a pen made out of an old door I nailed legs onto )

Good luck & hopefully all will be well.

 

[CHlCKEN]

Please don't fight , I myself usually quarantine for at least 15 days, and ideally a month or more.

I would have at least wanted him quarantined for 15 days, but he is just an escaped artist.

Yesterday in the evening when I went to check up on him he wasn't in his pen, I freaked out and started to frantically search for him and found him on the other side of my property sitting on top of my run/main cage.
Knowing he is able to get out of his cage I tied him to a tie cord that was attached to a stake in the ground thinking it would keep him in place but to my surprise he escaped again , I found him outside of my run still tied to the tiecord and stake, he had dragged it along.

Now since he looks healthy and has interacted with my other birds twice on accident I was thinking of just introducing him to my flock, I have treated him for worms and lice(I do this on the first day I get new birds)

You’re probably fine to just go ahead and integrate him now (if there was something, he’d have given it to them already), but in the future, try to quarantine for longer and uh… maybe in a more secure pen lol. I do understand that they can be sneaky though- I also have an escape artist (only she’s always used that talent to come tell me about predators) and they are difficult to contain

 

[Danish aseels]

You’re probably fine to just go ahead and integrate him now (if there was something, he’d have given it to them already), but in the future, try to quarantine for longer and uh… maybe in a more secure pen lol. I do understand that they can be sneaky though- I also have an escape artist (only she’s always used that talent to come tell me about predators) and they are difficult to contain

I have a similar cage which I use for separating birds, it's good because it does not have a bottom so I can place it on top of an concrete floor and easily examine the birds dropping, he has figured out he can lift up the cage a little bit of the ground with his beak and then force his way out

 

[CHlCKEN]

I have a similar cage which I use for separating birds, it's good because it does not have a bottom so I can place it on top of an concrete floor and easily examine the birds dropping, he has figured out he can lift up the cage a little bit of the ground with his beak and then force his way out

I would try to stake it to the ground with something heavy.

 

[BantyChooks]

I have a similar cage which I use for separating birds, it's good because it does not have a bottom so I can place it on top of an concrete floor and easily examine the birds dropping, he has figured out he can lift up the cage a little bit of the ground with his beak and then force his way out

Ah, I see. What a clever bird. If it's on concrete, that does sound tough to hold down.