This is exactly what we plan to do! We have 11 Icelandic chicks right now. We will be processing all of our cockerels in the Fall (which makes me a bit sad because I've grown attached to a few!) and will only keep Icelandic roosters. We will keep hens of other breeds, but they should all lay brown or blue/green eggs so not much chance for confusion. We don't breed or show. We just wanted free ranging, good foraging birds with nice color variation. Now we just need to find some more of them! Out of eleven chicks I expect maybe five to be pullets? Not much luck in the pullet department. We are very rooster heavy right now!
Have the exact same problem. I'm usually pretty lucky with the cockerel to pullet ratio. Not this time. Spoke way too soon last week when I thought I only had one cockerel. Have no idea with my 7 younger birds, but my older ones are looking like 6 cockerels and 3 pullets. Hoping I'm wrong, but I've pretty sure on 5 of them. Was wondering why I had so much fighting after I moved them to the coop on Friday night.
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