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Thank you all for the advice and suggestions. I'm planning on getting a half-dozen chicks at the end of April, and I suppose that will be the test of whether I've had bad luck with a couple of roosters or I'm doing something wrong in my rooster raising. :jumpy In the future I would like to be...

My first rooster was a Dominique and I have never grown to hate an animal more! It was mutual. Lessons were learned.

Thank you both! Those red phoenixes are beautiful, too. I'll definitely take a look at Cackle, and thank you for the reassurance that my older girls might be able to boss around a young guy.

I would be getting new chicks in spring, so the rest of the flock would be either 1 or 2 years old at hatching. I have a fear that the 2 year olds don't know how to stand up to a rooster, though, from growing up with an awful one. I know the legbar at least couldn't handle it, but she seems a...

Thank you! Wyandottes are such lovely birds, too. Although I got a new one this year and she doesn't want to be at the bottom of the pecking order, so she's terrorizing my poor legbar! I feel so bad for that bird, I think she's too dumb to cope with having a bully. I haven't tried Orpingtons...

So, my last two years of chickenkeeping have mostly just been rooster trouble. I currently have a flock of...I think 8 two-year-old hens and 2 pullets. Last year's girls grew up with a Dominique cockerel who was an absolute nightmare and ended up being my first cull earlier this year. This...