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I agree, you don't want that many boys, and the pullets definitely don't. Until they're laying they're not ready for mating, so it's stressful for them with just one amorous cockerel, let alone several. As you remove cockerels, formerly timid boys will get more confident to go after the girls...

Since you didn't see much of what happened it's hard to know. What they do with their legs in flight depends on their balance. Two innocent possibilities are that a fright sent him up, or he could have been after a bug. Not all cockerels are athletic enough to gain altitude vertically so when...