Well, for now, that's why we have the bachelor pad. No one's going to the chair or the crockpot just yet. But 'winter is coming' isn't just for Game of Thrones...Anyway, I do want to have a world where the pullets/later hens can come out of the coop and enjoy the fenced yard they have. So far...
OK, so FWIW, Mel Giblets took a trip this morning to the Bachelor Pad. For the time being, Cockerel A (aka Tom Crooster) is still in with the girls. The pullets who had not come out of the coop hardly ever were out this morning so there's some improvement at least for now.
Keeping an eye on...
I think (from my vast <sarcasm here> experience, but a lot of reading too) you're absolutely right. I do know two roos to this many hens is insane, no question about it. I do have three 2-week-old Easter Eggers in the brooder, no telling whether I'll have a cockerel in there. I could cull both A...
You're right, I sort of can't help but like Cockerel A better. But I'm not a chicken, so I don't want to do something based on projecting human thinking on them.
I have a flock of six 16-week-old Easter Eggers. Four (2 cockerels, 2 pullets) were hatched at the same time (incubator) and brooded together. The other two pullets came into the flock from a relative because they were being bullied incessantly there. They get along fine for the most part...
Hens go broody when you don’t want them to… and won’t go broody when you do.