7 year old virgin hens (3)...and changes to come!

[granmaw23girls]

I'm a first time poster to the forum but have come to read and get information from all of you experienced chicken peeps. Please be easy on me. I'm kind of a chicken myself!

First a little background regarding my son's, now MY 3 grandhens by adoption!
I never thought I would love chickens in my craziest dreams...but dang I sure do! These three came to us, actually there were 4, - 3 day old chicks ... 7 years ago! Because my son wanted the experience.
well got the experience and was named on and completely devoted in caring for them for their first 5 years. The best mother hen ever ! Consistent, never trusting anyone else in their care, except myself, rarely! That could possibly be due to Rudy, the #4, of the pack, dying accidently, when I picked her up at around 1 years old. She panicked, so I panicked, tried to ease her to the ground....that quick and she was dead! We'll never know for sure. I feel she broke her neck or had a heart attack. It happened so fast. So devasting!

Fast forward....the 3 that remain have always been the "spoiled flock". After 7 years, 8 y.o.July 3rd. My son moved out of state 2 years ago, and I became the grandmother hen of ROOSTIE, (RUSSIAN ORLOFF), CUZ (JERSEY GIANT), and RED (whom I call my bff, the girl left out) (Rhode Island red). As you can imagine I'm attached. But I never knew chickens lived this long! I love them bless their hearts.
My dilemma....I am forced to give them up. At 7 years old, after all the coversations, all the care, all the joy they have given us. I cannot keep them. I am moving, due to an unfortunate situation and
forclosure of the home we live in. today
Despite all that's going on in life today, combined with worries and stressors of covid-19, the economy....

my dilemma....and the reason for posting is, I am forced to give them up. At 7 years old, after all the coversations, all the care, all the joy they have given us. I can no longer keep them. I haven't a choice, I am forced to move due to an unfortunate situation and foreclosure of the home we live in for now.
Despite all that's going on in life today, combined with worries and stressors of covid-19, a major move....I have found a woman willing to take them and introduce them into her own flock. That's great right? Sorta. A mixed batch of mixed breeds of mixed ages, totalling around 10 in her flock. Initially, I worry about bullying and fighting that can go on both ways.
Then it came to me...ROOSTERS!!! Does this new flock have any roosters? YES THERE ARE, 2 crowing, active rapists! NOW I fear for my girls, fear that most likely they could lose their virginity, possibly the offender roosters lives and unbearable to think about...their own spoiled innocent lives at the age of 7!
Can anyone offer advice, experience, reassurance, warnings...anything at all to help with this inevitable change? I have no one else to take them. Very little time left before we have to go. We are currently living in California. More specifically the S.F. Bay Area just for reference.
Thanks in advance to anyone that responds without judgement. I wouldn't be writing if I didn't care!

 

[NuggetTheChicken]

Oh no! Where are you going to go?

 

[aart]

Might need to find a 'convent' flock if you're worried about chicken sex.

 

[AngieDawn]

Might need to find a 'convent' flock if you're worried about chicken sex.

This cracks me up (pun intended) because I work for nuns

 

[Mrs. K]

oh no, do not worry, they will be in love by morning, wondering where these fellows have been all their lives.

It might be a bit brusk at first, but that is normal. Chickens do not understand the rules and limitations we as people put on sex. They are going to be fine.

I kept a hen only flock for the first 4 years, and like I said, it was a bit of feather flying at first - but nothing dangerous, just a bit of excitement, and in love in the morning, following his every step, looking to him for guidance.

Mrs K

 

[Ridgerunner]

I don't know enough about the other flock to be that sure of what will happen. If those two roosters are fairly mature it should go really smoothly, much as Mrs K said. If they are immature cockerels it will likely be a bit rougher, your girls may beat the snot out of an uppity brat cockerel. With cockerels you just don't know. But they will work it out. Your girls will also have to sort out the pecking order with the hens. Usually this is not a bog deal. Some bluffing and intimidation, maybe a little pecking and it's usually settled.

I'm sure you've given these three the best possible care. But as you say, you have no other choice. Chicken virginity, that's not even a concept for them. They will get to live the rest of their lives in a flock of chickens doing what chickens do naturally. Roosters mating hens is part of flock dynamics. It helps establish pecking order/dominance which allows a flock to live together peacefully. If they don't know their roles and place in the pecking order there would be a lot more violence.