How many roosters are too many roosters?

[lazy gardener]

Ditto Dat^^^

Think about winter, when the birds may spend all day(sometimes days on end) cooped up due to nasty weather. Cabin Fever can get ugly.

.....and if this is your first year and eating eggs is your only goal, you may not want to deal with any males at all. Can depend on your goals and housing options. You only need 1 male to fertilize 13 females if you're interested in hatching out replacement layers

4 months is just the beginning, be ready with a separate enclosure cause if things go bloody, it happens fast.

What she said!!!!

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Ditto Dat^^^

Think about winter, when the birds may spend all day(sometimes days on end) cooped up due to nasty weather. Cabin Fever can get ugly.

.....and if this is your first year and eating eggs is your only goal, you may not want to deal with any males at all. Can depend on your goals and housing options. You only need 1 male to fertilize 13 females if you're interested in hatching out replacement layers

4 months is just the beginning, be ready with a separate enclosure cause if things go bloody, it happens fast.

Suggesting separation was the last sentence I had typed in my previous post, but decided to delete it. I also deleted my suggestion to NOT have any boys this go around.

I think it is a great suggestion though!

 

[CiceroXY]

What she said!!!!

Wow, I don't know why but I was sure that Aart was a man!

 

[lazy gardener]

Stereotype? (she possesses an engineer's mind) Or simply the name? Art = Arthur???? Hey, Aart, what's your handle all about????

 

[CiceroXY]

Stereotype? (she possesses an engineer's mind) Or simply the name? Art = Arthur???? Hey, Aart, what's your handle all about????

I really don't know but you are right maybe I subconsciously believed this cause I find her way of thinking (and expressing her thoughts in writing) extremely concrete and practical.. Also the name Aart is particular but I like it even more now that I know she is a lady

 

[DesertBird]

I know @RoostersAreAwesome has a great article about an All Rooster flock that they linked to me. Don't fret yet! Just separate all the rooster's from your hens and put 'em together in a pen only they're in. I ended up with 3 Roo's to 11 Hens (grr feed store and it's "already sexed hens") and made a thread asking if I need to get rid of some, and now, I think I may do a Rooster flock. Since they're all raised/grew up together, it should be easier for them to be alone without hens with no issues. Maybe a bit of fighting here and there if they don't have enough space, but they should otherwise be fine, it seems.

 

[aart]

Stereotype? (she possesses an engineer's mind) Or simply the name? Art = Arthur???? Hey, Aart, what's your handle all about????

but I like it even more now that I know she is a lady

Handle is a compounded/truncation of my full name that I've used on many forums and other places. Have always been far from the typical female, much more 'masculine' than is generally accepted in my gender born, and am most certainly no 'lady'...haha!...(there's a saying that explains it better, but that kind of language is not allowed here).

 

[DesertBird]

I know
@RoostersAreAwesome has a great article about an All Rooster flock that they linked to me. Don't fret yet! Just separate all the rooster's from your hens and put 'em together in a pen only they're in. I ended up with 3 Roo's to 11 Hens (grr feed store and it's "already sexed hens") and made a thread asking if I need to get rid of some, and now, I think I may do a Rooster flock. Since they're all raised/grew up together, it should be easier for them to be alone without hens with no issues. Maybe a bit of fighting here and there if they don't have enough space, but they should otherwise be fine, it seems.

Here's the article @RoostersAreAwesome did.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/rooster-flocks.72998/
And here's a link to the thread I made a bit ago, too, in case you want to see the advice people gave me on there.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/to-keep-roosters-or-not-to-keep.1190195/

 

[buttertart]

Ditto Dat^^^

Think about winter, when the birds may spend all day(sometimes days on end) cooped up due to nasty weather. Cabin Fever can get ugly.

.....and if this is your first year and eating eggs is your only goal, you may not want to deal with any males at all. Can depend on your goals and housing options. You only need 1 male to fertilize 13 females if you're interested in hatching out replacement layers

4 months is just the beginning, be ready with a separate enclosure cause if things go bloody, it happens fast.

Thats kind of what I am worried about. There is one already he is quite large, obviously a mix with a big breed, when they were all supposed to be the black sex link. He is still friendly enough now, but really pushing himself on hens already.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Thats kind of what I am worried about. There is one already he is quite large, obviously a mix with a big breed, when they were all supposed to be the black sex link. He is still friendly enough now, but really pushing himself on hens already.

Each cockerel, once they reach that point... will mate as many hens as they want as often as they want and the hen will have ZERO say in it, when they are this age. Once they mature where the boys call the ladies to treats and such, they should learn to take NO for an answer sometimes. But until that point, it will be chasing, grabbing, and screaming... especially once all reach that point and the competition to spread their seed begins. Had it (an outbreak of males suddenly breeding before my stag pen was complete) happen once and the boys would chase down the most docile hen and hold her down while taking turns!

Please note, that while I do have a stag pen... I do NOT maintain a rooster flock. I keep my mating roosters there for when I need them. And my grow out cockerels until they are processed. Whether they fight or not is completely unique to each bird, REGARDLESS of breed or space.