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If this is your first flock, remove both roosters, and replace with two hens. Roosters are a crap shoot, and IMO need an experienced keeper. Create an all hen flock, and keep that for a year or two, and then if you want branch out into a rooster. Most people seriously under estimate how violent roosters can get. Inexperienced people often times miss the signs of the building aggression (sometimes experienced people do too.)
Contact your local feed store for possible people that have chickens near you. Or your extension agent, or a local 4-H club... all people that might have some point of lay pullets to replace your roosters with.
In a small set up, two roosters is too many.
Mrs K
Ooh that's another possibility I was thinking of. Only problem is that I doubt people in my area would want some - or I don't know some that would. I asked my friend (she lives on a farm) whose family was thinking of starting a flock if she wanted one and she said no, they're too noisy! I could maybe bring them back to the auction where I got them, I'm just not sure how to go about that. Or I could try putting an ad in the papers but I'm not sure if that's legal or whatever.
If I were to replace them with two females, would I get them around the same age as the other two?
Thanks for all your help!