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    Suggestions for managing multiple roosters for breeding (keeping hens and roosters separated)

    That makes total sense... I had planned to do AT LEAST a couple of breedings a time for that exact reason, thinking that putting multiple roos back in would at least mean that not ONE dude would get too picked on... I had also thought MAYBE to add a temporary pen or something adjacent to the...
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    Suggestions for managing multiple roosters for breeding (keeping hens and roosters separated)

    Thanks for your detailed reply, and yeah there are a LOT of logistics to work out. lol As I begin the first stages of this project, I want to keep things as SIMPLE as possible... and my main concern is managing a bunch of roosters (maybe as many as 16, who will all be raised together from...
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    Suggestions for managing multiple roosters for breeding (keeping hens and roosters separated)

    Yeah, I am (both fortunately and unfortunately), aware that you are definitely right... I don't really plan on doing serious selective breeding (aside from the big things) for a while. To start with, at least, I am trying to test out basic systems and get experience breeding, at least to...
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    Suggestions for managing multiple roosters for breeding (keeping hens and roosters separated)

    Hello all! I am new and have been searching the forums and articles but having a bit of trouble finding the specific info I need, so I am sorry if I have missed it somewhere, but hoping I can get some tips or even, perhaps some direction, if this info is somewhere I just am not looking. My main...
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    New member...

    Hi Everyone, I am a new member from the southcentral Missouri Ozarks. I am relatively new to raising chickens, about a year or so in. Presently, I am looking to start breeding (I am new to chickens but have experience breeding/keeping other animals). At the moment, our "home flock" (i.e. the...
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