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Thanks. The issue will be mostly resolved tomorrow. By a luck of the egg gods, I ended up with a bunch of roosters. The long story: Peter shared the original coop with 4 hens of his generation. One if the hens died last summer during a brutal heat wave (115F for 2 weeks straight last June)...

To be clear, there were a lot of roosters in that back yard. I am getting rid of 15 tomorrow morning and 3 will remain. Truthfully, I should only keeps one, but how can I give away a rooster whom I nursed back to health from near death? Or one that survived a dog pack attack, sill isn't 100% a...

I expect him to attack the rooster that is trying to mate his hen. Is that not correct behaviour ?

My reason for asking is that I have 18 roosters right now and am giving away 15 of them tomorrow morning. Peter has been my favorite because of how friendly he has been. He is a bit more reserved now, and will walk away when I try to pick him up. However, I would like to have a rooster that...

No, he is perfectly healthy as far as I can tell. He is also bigger than other roosters. I guess he is just not a true Alpha.

He is just under 2 years old.

I have a rooster named Peter. He is a very big boy. I had a larger number of roosters than hens, so I separated the hens from roosters and put Peter with the girls. The reason I chose him was because he was the most friendly towards me. I could pick him up any time and he did not run away nor...