I do not know how old he is. He came with the property lol. With a saxony duck actually but unfortunately a coyote ate him yesterday. We were devastated. They were best friends. We didn’t want the rooster to be alone so we bought him two hens and found these hens.
Thank you so much! That would make sense! He doesn’t seem to have a lot of flight feathers. Just two kind of long ones on either side. He had a duck best friend that was a Saxony but he was killed yesterday by a coyote so he bought two hens to keep the rooster company. The rooster came with the property and we didn’t have the heart to get rid of him or the duck. I am going to look into some ramps and a ladder. Thank you so much!
With what's been said I personally don't see the problem with him sleeping down low. It is not unusual for chickens that can't fly to sleep in a very low place or on the coop floor. Broody hens often keep their chicks on the coop floor until the chicks age enough to take the to the roost. Chicks in a brooder sleep on the brooder floor. My juveniles usually sleep on the coop floor until they are ready to roost. I don't see any harm in them sleeping wherever they want as long as it is not in my nests and is somewhere predator safe.
I was a little worried that the hens wouldn’t see him as their boyfriend or accept him if he slept lower. You know how you see so many things on the internet lol. He is already a very little rooster, he’s a chochin bantam frizzle (I think) and I have 12 week old golden comets and they are almost bigger than he is! I just want them to accept him as their man and have everybody be very happy. I purposefully bought young girls so that they would beat him up since he is such a small boy. I put a wooden ladder, a real ladder, my husband wasn’t using so that they would hopefully all cuddle and use that. Fingers crossed!
Neither the rooster or the hens care much about his size- it's what kind of rooster he is, is important to the hens. I had a small silkie rooster who ran the show for two years, keeping thirty-plus hens and two standard roosters in line. He didn't know he was a hobbit of a bird, literally a halfling. He had more fight in him than in any other five roosters put together- twenty pounds of attitude in a five pound sack, a gallon of confidence in a pint jar, etc.
I’m so sorry to hear that! That must have been devastating! The rooster was originally was bff with a saxony mallard we started calling scooter who liked to scoot under the gate and he was eaten by a coyote. We have been so heartbroken. I went out immediately and purchased these two hens so that the rooster wouldn’t be lonely. I miss that darn duck so much. Chickens are great and I am loving keeping them so far, but I truly miss my duck. I’m so so sorry about your silkie, he sounded like such a big personality <3 I hope my frizzle doesn’t the same for our little flock! He definitely bosses the hens around more than he ever did the duck!
