Can My roosters mate each other?

[Juliesflock]

I kept our extra roosters and built them a run and for awhile they lived together. There was 7 of them. Eventually a raccoon got in and killed them all. Sad day.

They mostly got along and roosted together but there was one who was a real nut. He would attack me too and one day I whacked him in the head with a wooden spoon. A little too hard, it temporarily wobbled him. The 2nd rooster mounted him right away. When the crazy rooster recovered, he tried to retake his position but the ithers wouldn't allow it. They lived mostly lived in peace after this until the raccoon attack.


But this is my only experience with roosters. Not suggesting you hit him in the head. I didn't decide to do it, it was instinctual, he was attacking my face while I was feeding them.

I just had company and they had chicken wisdom. I was having difficulty choosing which one to keep. The choosing factor is the obvious choice of the lead rooster now, because if I choose one of the other rooster's I was told it would turn into exactly what I am seeing already. So, that helps with the hard choice of who to keep. Unfortunately, I don't have a large secure lock down area for the permanent separation and have it safe for everyone. I am learning, chicken's have their own way of dealing with pecking order and importance. I was also told that any new chicks need to be no less than 3/4ths the size of existing chicken's before I put them together. I had purchased 4 guaranteed pullets and 2 straight which can be either male or female. That's because I had to buy 6. The pullets? Act very much like the rooster's when they were chick's. They challenge each other with their raised neck feathers. I am hoping I wasn't sold roosters after all of this investment and time.