Crazy chicken lady 77
Chirping
- Nov 13, 2024
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About 2 weeks ago I found a dead rooster at dusk. It was laying in the coop and I wasn't sure what happened to it. I have a quarter acre free range area that is completely fenced in with a large coop as well as a covered run. I have 24 hens and 7 roosters. My hens hatched 24 chicks last year and 12 were roosters. We butchered 6, but i was waiting for some to get bigger and trying to decide which to keep. The dead rooster was one of the 3 smaller roosters so 4 are larger. I decided it was likely a squabble eventhough I haven't seen anything. I'm fostering 4 hens for someone and have them in a 12x12 enclosed coop. I decided to move the 2 smaller roosters with those hens to get them away from the big ones. However tonight another rooster was dead. He was only in with 4 hens and 1 rooster. Was it because the space was small and they couldn't get away from each other or something else? I'm at a loss. I'm still assuming violence since the hens seem fine. How many roosters should I keep with this size flock?
