Human Rooster Living Conditions

[fuscia]

It's me again! So here's the story, I got 7 baby chicks and ended up with 4 hens and 3 roosters. I currently have the most docile rooster with the hens (a barred cochin) and the other two bantam roosters each have their own coop. They are a bantam Austrolorpe and a bantam BB Red Old English Game Hen rooster. Both of them have chased my daughter at some point so that's one reason I keep them in the coop. The other is they will all fight. Is it inhumane to keep them in a coop alone, even if it's spacious enough? They seem agitated when everyone else is out free ranging. They pace sometimes. I worry I'm being inhumane but I don't want to eat them or give them away. I don't know much about chicken psychology and was interested what y'all had to say on the matter.
Thanks!

 

[PD-Riverman]

A rooster will not pace and will be more happy if he does not see he is missing out. Meaning---put him somewhere where he can not see the others and what is happening. He is like a kid---he is content inside as long as he can not see a bunch of other kids playing outside. I have kept several for a couple months(quarantined)---in separated big dog kennels---they could see each other but not the rest of the flock. They were fine.

 

[Chickassan]

Poor kids are just licking the window. Like PD said block the view, out of sight out of mind.

 

[lazy gardener]

You might put the 2 bachelors together. All my cockerels go in one pen until processing day. They eventually learn that they aren't invited to the fun and games, and accept their fate. Towards the end, I had them trained to go in to their tractor for the day, and back into their secure coop for the night.

 

[fuscia]

Thanks my title was supposed to be Humane not Human. Derp