Think about it. Half of all chickens hatched are roosters. Or will be. But no one needs all those roosters, unless you just like to look at them. I like to look at them, but if you have too many they run the hens ragged, so they have no feathers on their backs, and so they stay on the roosts and don’t come down to eat unless they are starving. Too many roosters for the number of hens and you subject your hens, basically, to gang rape. If your hens hatch chicks you just have to be ready to get rid of roosters. And no one wants them except to eat. I have seen mine butchered. I don’t like it but the experts do it very fast. We did it ourselves once years ago when we needed to eat them and could not pay to have them butchered. That was worse but still over quickly. Please try to face the realities of raising animals. If you can’t, just have hens. Even then, eventually you will have old hens and very few eggs. Maybe that is ok, if they are pets. If you want to have eggs you will have to dispose of old hens somehow and get new ones.
