Introduction

[BoundlessLove]

Welcome to Backyard Chickens!
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[Debbie292d]

Hi and welcome. By your account, your cockerels must be about five months old. A bachelor flock can work if the females are not so near that their presence "upsets the apple cart," so to speak. Good luck!

We have several roosters and the opposite situation. The breeding pens and growout pens have all the hens locked up, and the extra roosters free-range and hang out around them. Even picking up food and clucking as if they could come get it. They all get along for the most part.

 

[Firsttimewithchickens]

We have several roosters and the opposite situation. The breeding pens and growout pens have all the hens locked up, and the extra roosters free-range and hang out around them. Even picking up food and clucking as if they could come get it. They all get along for the most part.

Thats a good idea. We haven't quite figured out what we are going to do. But have the "caged" area being built

 

[BigBlueHen53]

We have several roosters and the opposite situation. The breeding pens and growout pens have all the hens locked up, and the extra roosters free-range and hang out around them. Even picking up food and clucking as if they could come get it. They all get along for the most part.

Maybe that's what I did wrong. When I went to Alabama and bought a slew of lavender EE, I ended up with about nine cockerels if I recall correctly. They were so hard to sex though! I ended up with something like 7 in a grow-out pen and the others running free with the flock. Evenually the boys in the 'hood started to turn on each other and ended up in the freezer sooner than I would have liked. And one of the free cockerels joined them because he was bullying one of the pullets, would not let her eat, etc. But letting the cockerels free range was not an option, I could not keep 20-some hens locked up.

 

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[Tookie]

Hello and welcome to BYC! We're glad to have you here.

 

[llcardinale]

The class only hatched the 7 and no one else wanted them, so they all came home with us. Most people dont want roosters only the hens for eggs. But my daughter wont give them up. So a bachelor pad is what we are planning to keep them separated. I hope it works

 

[llcardinale]

You might try Google Gemini and ask for advise on how to raise three roosters together. I have no idea. Your daughter sounds like a sweetheart. I wish you both the all the best in managing your bachelor pad.

 

[chrissynemetz]

Welcome to BYC! It's nice to meet you!

 

[Bsmac]

Hello! Welcome to BYC! Good luck with your chicken adventure!