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I am hoping she gets it resolved. Too much stress coming from it.

Do the following; using Google search "certified pest control operator" and contact one serving your area. Have them come out and survey the situation and devise an approach they know will work. Have the certified pest control operator do everything. It will cost more than renting or even...

My concern has been for the chickens all along. The humans are in control, but not.

I am not referring to your post, rather the OP's. I can not longer sympathize with the OP. I am disgusted.

This whole thing is getting to be difficult to believe. The postings are getting to be like very well written lyrics intended to stimulate negative emotions in the reader. It all a bad dream, with no good humans in the entire narrative.

Interesting

I do not see signs of fighting on him. Damage appears to be in the upper part of the left leg. A sicle / streamer feather of tail looks broken / straight and secondaries on right wing are messed up. Such damage I would consider more related to improper handling like trying carry him...

It is nothing to have American Games be able to get their own eats for not only survival and growth, they can get enough even for good reproduction even where I am located. Where you are, it is easy for them to rustle up their own grub year round.

Show a picture of the damaged bird.

Here is another video that I was trying find earlier. Ignore the narration please. We will see if it riles up my little game fowl buddy.

We call it cotton. The function of cotton is to make the males more visible when displaying to hens, especially when rooster is running at a hen he is trying mate with and she might have other ideas. Most consistent time to see the cotton in action is immediately after a dominant rooster /...

The play for dominance is a certainty which is over riding other concerns at the moment. If a "prepper neighbor" is source of birds, then he is abusing classic livestock privileges if no agreements exist for his birds to range OP's property. If I were OP, then the prepper and I would have to...

I remember dealing with manure like the OP's husband. Laying hens were kept in large groups pushing 100. They had movable wooden roost that were lifted to get the manure out. Manure was so "hot" we would mix in with cattle manure pile for spreading on fields rather than applying it to garden.

With a little practice anyone can tell. The crowing itself is not an indicator of rank. The bird on left is keeping his tail partially collapsed indicating he is showing difference to his brother who has his tail more fanned out. Need to look at reducing the number of males to one really...

Can you tell which bird in video is dominant?

My earlier postings on the subject were not considered which is why I suggested destroying the birds. That was the only post that caught anyone's attention through that point. You are not getting the point either, the males will cull each other. They will kill each other, those not chickens...

This not a trolling issue. Rather, you have experienced people that know what is up with this type of situation. I keep a good number of the type of bird involved and have a lot of experience that very much parallels what OP is observing. It is apparent no one even scrutenized what I took...

Time for a humor break, but I likely have been blocked. Someone else needs to run with the ball.

Are you talking to cockers?

You are getting there, but check this out. A group of adult male chickens kept together and even confined together. They are representative of most roosters on this site kept in a backyard setting. Adult males of those can be kept together just fine when properly managed. Next image is the...