is either rooster worth keeping??

As lovely as they both are, I really advised against two roosters with five hens. Even if they don't fight, mating is pretty violent; if they are equal in mating rate, the hens would be pretty tired of it.

That said, I really love the first roo. He does look like golden cuckoo Marans... But you really should take the personality into consideration more than looks.
 
The first time we had chickens, we had one roo with 5 hens. There weren't enough hens for him, apparently, as the hens' backs started to get raw and feather-plucked.

So I would say, I recommend having more hens if you keep ONE rooster.

Edited because I remembered the TOTAL we had was 6.
 
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Definitely choose one. Not fair to the hens to be mated by two of them -- one is often too much for only 3 hens, but you can judge that when you get it down to one.
 

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