Beautiful 3-month-old cockerels in Central Maryland

[Fishychick]

Um, every time I go in the pen, I have treats! In the morning, I throw in fruits and veggies. I used to use a bowl but, with 10 chickens, if I don't scatter the food, only the older hens get any food. They all go nuts during feeding time; everybody wants the grapes! I also put down a huge bowl of chicken grower in the house. If I'm home during the day, I stick plants through the fence. In the evening, I go in to the run and toss in dried mealworms with a few live ones. I give some by hand (in a Dixie cup) to my youngest, Hope. She was an "add-on" egg to the clutch who I took inside to the incubator and hatched 5 days after her siblings. I then had to raise her inside until she was old enough since her surrogate mother wouldn't accept her. Thank goodness she's a girl (or at least I think so; she's much smaller than Iris who looks the same otherwise, and she doesn't have the long neck feathers)! She's the only one that lets me touch her. She's usually up on a roost because the others don't like her. Only the father attacks me at this point. If he's not actively eating when I'm in there, he's going after me. He's faster than me so he has gotten me good a few times when I couldn't react fast enough to get the old snow shovel between him and I. I've mistakenly faught back a few times to defend myself, and that just really set him off so I try to "ignore" the attack. The baby boys stay away from me but will bite if I touch them, or they take mealworms from the Dixie cup (they are nuts for mealworms). At this point, they mostly just give me the "evil eye" but I am ready for when they go bad. I don't really care about myself (and neither does anybody else). I am more worried about the boys hurting each other or over-mating the girls. Two of the adult hens wear what I call dresses (saddles) but their wing tips are still raw from the daddy rooster. I just saw Dusty (another of the baby roosters) bite his sister Ariel on the back from behind for no reason. Maybe this is his first "romantic" overture? Great.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I have a rooster-only flock and would take in one of your roos if I lived closer.
Like one of the other posters said, is it possible for you to get them to a chicken sanctuary? Rehoming roosters is hard enough, but aggressive roos are almost impossible. Speaking of aggression, I've found that squirting a spray bottle at my aggressive roo's head works great to deter him, even if he's trying to spur me.
Best of luck finding them good homes!