One question I do have: isn’t it good to have a rooster around to help protect the hens? We free range during the day. Curious about your thoughts on this.
This is is incredibly helpful; thank you for taking the time to write this out! I like your approach. We do have little ones with another one on the way, so I’m glad you brought that up! I wouldn’t have had any idea they were so aggressive. Again, thank you for taking the time to talk some sense...
We have ten pullets. I don’t want to get rid of all of the cockerels because of their breeding;there’s a waitlist to get any. But you’re probably right in that we should! ♀️
I have no idea where they'll go; probably need to sell them!...just trying to figure that out now. I think we want to breed (my husband does, I just want eggs!) and they're so gorgeous, I hate to get rid of all of them. And we do free range, so I'd imagine we want to keep at least one rooster...
Ok, so I'm very new to this. But we've got 8 cockerels and 10 pullets (I've just determined this today) and I'm a little at a loss of what to do with them now that they're getting bigger. They're free range during the day with a stationary coop they go in at night - everyone's together at this...