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@aart What age do you cull the extra roos? If you know you are going to eat them do you feed and house them differently?Get rid of one of the roosters....keep (and maybe breed) the best, eat the rest.
Quote: I harvest them young, under 16 weeks or whenever they start causing trouble - whichever comes first.
Still tender enough then to put on the grill, after resting the cleaned carcass in the fridge for 48-72 hours, grilled bones then saved for making stock.
Ok...great info...I was just told that a chicken will lay fertile eggS (plural) for days after a mating....
I was under the impression that if I had a roo in with say 6-8 hens that he would "service" them all (probably with a few exceptions) so if they are living together for a week, I would then be able to harvest the eggs from the following week to incubate?
I can speak from experience I have had two brother roosters attempt to defend my flock from two coyotes they got one rooster before I could scare them off but the Roos were definitely going after the coyotes giving the hens time to runIf roosters of different breeds are exhibiting the behavior, are they implying the condition is somehow vectored/ promoted by a pathogen?
I question outright the assertion about the three roosters taking on a predator and think it is false. If balance of information is of similar quality and / or from similar source then all is suspect. I have been into poultry for a long-time with a breed known for capabilities when aggressive and accounts given above are outside my experience. I will also pit my level / quantity of experience against the authors when it comes to rooster behaviors.