Nice looking boys! I love rooster pictures....I'd love to have a yard full some day. They're just so pretty.
The pens have worked pretty well for us. The middle one, while I liked that we utilized that space, is a bit tight when I'm trying to clean with a pitchfork. It's too narrow to turn...
It's a try it and see how it goes kind of thing.
I had a rooster and two hens in a smallish breeding pen when space was tight, I think the pen is 10x4. No coop, just the pen. Now, this was a mature rooster and hens, not young birds. Mating was a routine thing, no drama. The hen's feathers...