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i do fine with one roo to two hens. and another roo with 3 hens. but then mine are in two separate flocks. sleep in the same coop divided by a chicken wire panel and cardboard covering the bottom section so they dont get fussin at each other as much.
oddly, my birds are NOT named but I could never consider eating them. After raising them I just couldnt. Maybe if I had gotten chickens for that reason to begin with...
but I could no sooner eat one of these 7 than I could my dog...
you have some options before you get rid of your roos....
I have 2 roos and 5 hens. I separated my roos cause I was chicken to let nature take its course and have the roos figure out who was the boss and who was the bachelor. But ppl say that they can co-exist. If a dominant roo sees a sub roo...