Thanks much guys! I have already located someone with Roosters AND a couple laying hens that have grown up together. Will b picking them up Sunday. Gotta love that craigslist!! Thanks for the feed store idea too. I should talk to them to see how much they know about my fellow chicken...
Guess I will check CL. I guess to find full grown roos I just have to suffer the crap shoot regarding how mean they will be. Perhaps the meaner the better tho. As for the offending coyotes, they will be short-lived......literally.
I live outside of Waco, in the country, and have had a small free-range chicken operation for about a year and a half now. A few weeks ago the coyotes decided to start picking off the roosters and now the chickens. I had 2 roosters guarding the hens (6) and between them and our dogs, we never...