HELP! How does ANYONE keep roosters? We had 2 cockerels in our order of 6 'pullets' this spring. We tried putting the two roos in their own pen but they can still see the girls- so they were both unhappy, pacing, crowing, etc. all day long. We re-homed one in hopes of re-integrating the smaller...
I've got (what I thought were) my two EE cockerels in a separate run/pen together. I was pretty sure that I heard them both crow- and he's got the red shoulders and longer, pointy-er tail feathers (compared to the girls) But his brother is SO MUCH bigger, like half again the size. And, it seems...
I have a small rooster flock. Out of my six "pullets", two were roos. So we moved them into their own run out of sight of the 4 hens and the hens are living happily together. (We have chickens for eggs and compost)
The Roos seem happy enough, too. They don't fight and have both been crowing...