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Hatching
- Apr 26, 2023
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First time poster here, sorry if this is in the wrong spot. We decided to massively grow our flock this year, from 3 up to 27. The new chicks are 8 weeks old and we are going to move them out to the main coop with our original 3 girls this weekend. We bought a dozen Olive Egger females and a dozen Ameraucana and Mystic Marans as a straight run. We know that we will have some roosters here and we want to keep a few of them. I have a few questions about roosters and the answers I find seem to be all over the map.
Can we keep any number of roosters we have from that straight run and all in the same coop? For example if we end up with 8 roosters then we would have 19 hens with them. Some people say they have no issues mixing any number up, but we were thinking to only keep 2-3 roosters max. If they cant all stay in the same coop, then we would need to remove them since we only have the one coop.
Moving them out to the coop...since we really arent sure which ones are roosters yet, and trying to figure it out based on the various google ways to do so seems impossible at 8 weeks, will it be fine to put them all out there together and weed out excess roosters later (assuming we cant just keep them all?) We could hold a few of the ones we are pretty sure are roosters (a few we have watched crowing like crazy! is this even 100% rooster guarantee at 8 weeks?) I assume they dont really start doing 'rooster' stuff til closer to 18-20 weeks, but we really dont want them in the garage this long.
Thanks for any tips/advice
Can we keep any number of roosters we have from that straight run and all in the same coop? For example if we end up with 8 roosters then we would have 19 hens with them. Some people say they have no issues mixing any number up, but we were thinking to only keep 2-3 roosters max. If they cant all stay in the same coop, then we would need to remove them since we only have the one coop.
Moving them out to the coop...since we really arent sure which ones are roosters yet, and trying to figure it out based on the various google ways to do so seems impossible at 8 weeks, will it be fine to put them all out there together and weed out excess roosters later (assuming we cant just keep them all?) We could hold a few of the ones we are pretty sure are roosters (a few we have watched crowing like crazy! is this even 100% rooster guarantee at 8 weeks?) I assume they dont really start doing 'rooster' stuff til closer to 18-20 weeks, but we really dont want them in the garage this long.
Thanks for any tips/advice
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