How to introduce new rooster

[Grind Hard Farm]

Hello all. Today, not so long ago, a family member so kindly gave us her buff orpington rooster, named Rooski (not sure if I spelled it right). He is not aggressive, just a bit skittish of a new environment. Trimmed his wings and added him to the coop. Angela, my turkey, went a bit haywire, flying away from the new rooster because he is so big. My younger roosters tried to put up a fight and then my original rooster, Chanticleer, stepped up and gave Rooski a piece of his mind, holding onto his wattle. Rooksi submitted by lying down and I intervened. Picked up Rooski and noticed he was bleeding between his wattles, he is fine though. I placed him in a smaller coop that is around the others with food and water. How to introduce him? He is pretty big and he has no spurs, not sure if my family member cut them or he is not mature yet. There are little nubs. Also can anyone identify how old he is? Family member did not say.

 

[FrostRanger]

Since you have existing roosters, there's a very real possibility that you may have to keep him separately as there's no guaranteed your existing boys will ever accept him.
That said, if you want to try anyways do see but no touch for a few weeks

 

[FrostRanger]

Also, how many hens do you have?

 

[ChicNmom]

Do you also have hens? Rooski is probably going to get beat up quite often being the new boy. Then if he wants to move up in the pecking order he'll have to beat up your other roosters.

The only time I've had multiple roosters was when they were raised together and even then there were some problems.

Keeping him separate the way you have him may help.

I hope it works out. He is a handsome rooster.

 

[Grind Hard Farm]

Also, how many hens do you have?

About 21

 

[Grind Hard Farm]

Do you also have hens? Rooski is probably going to get beat up quite often being the new boy. Then if he wants to move up in the pecking order he'll have to beat up your other roosters.

The only time I've had multiple roosters was when they were raised together and even then there were some problems.

Keeping him separate the way you have him may help.

I hope it works out. He is a handsome rooster.

Yes, I do. I thought so too

 

[FrostRanger]

With so few hens amongst that many roosters, I would just give him his own flock. From what it sounds like you have at least 4 roosters which would be rough on the 21 hens. In general the more boys you have, the more likely you are to run into problems with fighting and hens being overbred. Generally you want to aim for 10 hens per rooster. Will this guaranteed you won't run into problems? Not at all, some birds are just going to be problematic in certain circumstances no matter what the ratio is. Are you certain to have issues with your current ratio? Nope, your roosters could be civil enough not to fight or overmate the hens, but as I said, you're much more likely to have problems

 

[Mrs. K]

They don't call it cock fighting for nothing. You basically are setting up a cock fight by introducing a strange rooster to a rooster.

My question is why? I would give him back.