Can one rooster handle ten hens? Should there be 2 rooster per 10 hens? For fertility purposes.
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So you think you have 4 cockerels and 6 pullets? They're fine now but that will change when the males hit the teenage stage. That's way too much testosterone for so few females. At some point you will need to separate them and choose one male to keep. If you keep any.I am new to everything chickens I recently bought 10 chicks 4 from one place that I was told were pullets and 6 straight run from another place my first four are a little over a month old and my other 6 are 3weeks going on 4 and I am afraid I have 4 roos with a possible 2 and about 4 hens I'm no expert but I have done my research it didn't cross my mind that I would possibly have more than one roo all my chickens have been in the same brooder since I purchased them would they be ok? they do occasionally peck but once I say stop and be nice they seem to listen