How Many Roos Do You Have??

[chickndoglover]

I have 4 roos in my banty pen with 15 girls, Marty the Black Silkie is the boss, Horatio Caine the Buff Sebright, RO (Red One) is a little red mix that was a single chick I kept from last year and then I have Spike a little Black Frizzle who tries all day to get the girls but is too short! They all get along fairly well, being spring though there is the odd squabble, Spike has some feathers missing, he was kind of a jerk when I got him and I think the boys have been telling him how to behave. In my big flock of layers I have one Blue Polish roo - Ivan and I mix John Wayne and 17 girls for them to share, Ivan chase John Wayne around this time of year but no big fights.
The biggest problem I have for fighters is my silver sebright Rocky when he comes out of his pen my turkey Stanley (female - long story) and him fight until Rocky is bleeding so I have to be watching when he is loose.
I love my Roosters, I have 8 in total.

 

[slightlyscrambled]

I have to "flippin" many!! I recieved a group of six chicks from the grade school embryology hatch and they are all roos also for sure a roo in one of my own hatches and I already have three so........10 roos for about 15 hens.

 

[silkiesandbuffs]

I had 2 silkie roos, 5 buff orpington hens and one EE hen. Never had any fights but my mom got tired of the crowing so we had to re-home the roosters.

 

[hensonly]

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Yeah, me too - I got two roos in with my sex link "pullets" and they got along fine for two years - just started fighting last Friday, which I posted about elsewhere in this section. One kept the other pinned against the end fence of the run all day Friday, attacked him every time he stepped an inch away from the fence. He bounced himself off the fence attacking the other roo, injuring his feet (broke off both spurs, three toenails, and a gash in one toe). The hens were all stressed, too, and one of them started picking the attack roo's butt. He was too focused on the rival roo to notice. We culled him that night, and the whole flock is so much more relaxed. I never realized how much stress there was out there in the coop even when the boys weren't fighting, until one roo was gone. Wow. Never again would I keep multiple roos together with a flock unless maybe free ranging... What a huge difference in the whole atmosphere out there now.

 

[BTufts]

I have 2 roosters. 1 banty who is in charge of 10 standard girls and 2 bantys. Then I also have 1 showgirl roo who has his 2 showgirl hens to look after. So far so good.. My showgirls tend to keep to themselves so I think that helps.

 

[Chook-A-Holic]

I have 22 in the hoop coop that will be 8wks tomorrow. I will be raising them until they mature enough to decide which ones will be kept for my breeding stock. I'm working on their bachelor pad as we speak. I separated them from the girls about a week ago. Even though they are young, it really calmed them down. As of now they are still working out the pecking order, but nothing violent.

 

[chicmom]

I've got three young roos. I hatched a batch of Cream Brabanter eggs, and got two roos and three hens from that, plus I have a little GLW roo that I'm raising up for breeding purposes......I'm hoping the Brabanter roos will get along since I'm raising them together....they're so beautiful, I'd really like to keep them both.

 

[rcentner]

I have 3 roosters and 4 cockerels. The "head" rooster is very dominant as he was here 1st(Sam). My wyandotte roo (Molson) has just become an adult and is so timid that I think the other roo's think he is a hen, he just keeps lots of distance and hangs with his girls. I recently got a BR roo (Cash) who is MUCH bigger than my head roo, I was afraid my head roo would get killed, but it was the other way around! Sam put a whoopin on the BR roo, but Sam is older (like 3 maybe?) and Cash is only 1. I had to separate Sam and Cash cause they were hurting eachother. I will put them all together soon, but I will build a bigger run 1st. I have let them free range and they can get enough distance that way. After my youngins grow I will need to get more hens or I will have some beat up girls with all these roos. and to think, I would love a broody wyandotte!

 

[Frannabelle]

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Yeah, me too - I got two roos in with my sex link "pullets" and they got along fine for two years - just started fighting last Friday, which I posted about elsewhere in this section. One kept the other pinned against the end fence of the run all day Friday, attacked him every time he stepped an inch away from the fence. He bounced himself off the fence attacking the other roo, injuring his feet (broke off both spurs, three toenails, and a gash in one toe). The hens were all stressed, too, and one of them started picking the attack roo's butt. He was too focused on the rival roo to notice. We culled him that night, and the whole flock is so much more relaxed. I never realized how much stress there was out there in the coop even when the boys weren't fighting, until one roo was gone. Wow. Never again would I keep multiple roos together with a flock unless maybe free ranging... What a huge difference in the whole atmosphere out there now.

Yep, my flock is so calm now without the 2 roos. It really was stressing out the girls, I didn't realize it

 

[CMV]

I have never kept any male birds for any length of time. They tend to beat up the girls too much for my liking. I've had drakes and ganders but no roosters until my most recent batch of chicks. I have 1 cockerel and 1 suspected cockerel in my batch of "pullets" this year. I am not pleased and was even less pleased when the cockerel jumped on a small pullet and broke her neck. That just reiterates why I don't keep roos.