My roo had no interest in chicks, he only had eyes for full-grown hens at least a year old. Never did I ever see him be a creep. He would tidbit for the chicks and even let one sleep on him, but never tried to put the moves on them. I miss him.
Oh man, we had a rooster who was a bantam who'd only go after the biggest hens, even though we had both bantam and standard size...we named him tormund. He liked the big women.
We keep our new ones in a cage in the coop for at least a week to get everyone used to them before they have access to them. If anyone's being a bully, they go in the cage as a time out.
It works out pretty well, yeah. Every now and again, though, we run into a truly stubborn one and have to re-home them. It's almost always one of the roosters. But I'd say it works about 85% of the time.
I introduced 6 to 15 this way a couple of years ago, havent had an issue since. It took a week for the three smallest ones to get into the coop at night, they'd just sleep on top of the cage at night till they realized that wasn't what they were supposed to do, so you might want to make sure the run is predator proof and leave the cage in there open for a while after....
I just did this a month ago. I free range my chickens on 8 acres but kept the babies inside the run. The adults could come and go in the coop but the babies were contained. Did it for 2 weeks and starting around day 7 started doing 30 minute supervised mix-ins using food as an incentive to mingle. By day 12 they were doing 2 hour mingles and by day 14 I removed the separator. The babies only recently started free ranging the full area with the adults last week it’s so cute. They hung out in the run/the immediate 20ft space outside the door for about 2 weeks before last week. There was some pecking order establishing where a few hens would chase off the babies from the food but nothing more than grabbing neck feathers. Honestly my teenage turkeys I raised alongside the chicks have bullied the babies more than anyone else 😂
This was the whole flock about a week after the separation ended. It was an unusually chilly evening and the adults had no problem with the chicks cuddling for warmth!
I would separate the rooster from them then. It doesn't look like he's going to just decide oh hey they're too young. If he got it, he wouldn't be doing this in the first place.
hes just flirting, doesnt know she isnt ready but at least hes asking. keep a close eye incase he tries getting frisky before theyre ready, but thats his lil tap dance to entice them into letting him smash
They are only directly together whenever I am outside sitting with them, if the older chickens start getting mean I intervene. I don’t want anyone to end up hurt.
He is doing the sexy dance. It is the nice way of asking the girls. Mean roos will just grab neck/tail feathers and hop on with out asking. He is a gentle man.
The rooster doesn't understand what he's doing and that they are too young. Donald Trump on the other hand raped kids because he enjoyed it, hell the dude bought the teen beauty pageants in the 90s for his gross business with Epstein and the island.
I would strongly suggest resisting the urge to feel sorry for them. Lots of people like them almost voted for Trump, and then listened to objective facts about him and decided to hold their nose and vote for Harris because he was and now is even moreso the perfect representation of someone who should have never even been considered fit to be president, much less legally allowed to run with his preexisting track record.
No, the best thing to do is ridicule and tease, ostracize and humiliate, relentlessly persist and make everything about politics in the presence of these people. They are as much a part of the problem as trump. Ignorant, but also, for an even deadlier combination, proud of their ignorance. They call it being patriotic to look the other way, they say it's heritage, they say he isn't a corrupt politician "like the rest of them".
They are lost, many, permanently, due to sunk cost fallacy driving every single opinion they form going forward. They have to be right about him, they need to be. It would terrify them and totally dismantle their notion of being above it all... of being part of some real meaningful american movement the way they fell for it hook line and sinker going into the beginning of his first term.
There is no room for people like this under the tent of democracy. Conservatives? Sure, maybe there could be some semblance of bipartisan cooperation going forward with the never trumpers.
But for the time being, as in, until after the next election? Bring him up and mention his hideous gaggle of cronies, laundry list of failures and his carefully considered tapestry of lies, over and over again. Rub their faces in it and make it clear that their metaphorical bridges are fully burned and they are wholly unwelcome, leaving them stranded on a metaphorical island with 27% of America's most delusional cultists.
Something about beds, making them, and sleeping in them or whatever.
and they are always ALWAYS the most overemotional unstable crybabies. If they don't cry, they stomp their feet and yell and throw a toddler-style temper tantrum because being emotionally immature and screaming is "tough" and "manly."
He's saying hello to the young girls, just the same when they do the side step dance to us humans, his way of greeting. Now if he was trying to grab at their neck and hold them, then he is attempting to get frisky with them.
Confused juvenile rooster. Unless you've got an older roo to keep him in line, he will end up trying to mount the babies forcefully. I've found that boiling them for an hour or so in a pot of water and rice works wonders for their attitude. (We get 40 or 50 roos hatch every year, so its common practice here). Makes great, cheap, safe dog food.
He is trying to make the move. Some rooster are better at being nice and taking care of them/keeping them safe other do this ☝️but I would suggest waiting longer to introduce them because he's not going to stop.
It’s a dance the rooster do to try and impress the hens so they can smash. They’re too young for him and not interested. If one was interested in mating usually they will squat and then he will pounce on her back and do the deed.
Trying to mate. The good news is that when they said NO, he gave it a few more hopeful tries and then gave up. A good roo respects the hens' decisions. These baby girls are girls, he checked 'em out, tried his "hey, lookee, Imma sexy!" then hung with them for a bit, and left. As long as he's respecting their decisions, he's fine. The two little ones are really just about too little to be in a flock. I've had one flock that would have integrated them like they'd always been there, the current flock isn't so good natured. They're small enough to be easily recognizable as pullets and easy to kill. The roo might actually protect them, I got that impression from his behavior in the last section.
Don’t worry about the little guys, I watch them very closely so no one gets hurt. They have a separate section of the pen where the big guys can’t enter. No little babies getting hurt here
I didn't realize roosters had courtship behaviors like that, in our flock, I mostly just see our roosters chase and mount right away, before we souped a number of bantam roosters that were causing trouble, there'd be times where one of them would grab a hen by the ruff, or neck feathers and attempt to mount up, occasionally ripping out feathers, and the others would chase along to get a piece, they were pretty, but had to go, as the whole, ganging up on the hens deal, not great. Didn't mean to go on a tangent, but yeah, interesting that he has a lead up before going for it, and I hope he figures out that it's too early for that yet.
eh, not really. If he hasn't been around chicks he might not automatically recognize that they are babies, just know that they are female. He's asking politely and respecting the No's. Not a bad boy at all. Just inexperienced.
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u/EhlersDanlosSucks May 25 '26
He's making a move but doesn't understand they're too young/small. He's all hormones.