Is it mean to sep roos where they can See the hens?

[azygous]

My thirteen girls like it fine not having to put up with the two roosters. The girls are more relaxed and everyone has their back feathers.

The two boys have their own coop at the opposite end from the hens' coop and they get to talk to the girls all they want all day long through the fence that separates their pens. The boys seem to be fine with this arrangement.

That's not to say that on occasion, a hen slips into the rooster pen by accident and there's a rape attempt. Sometimes the hen doesn't mind, and sometimes there's a big fight if she does mind, which just reinforces my decision to keep the boys and girls separate. I don't think it's "mean".

 

[sourland]

In reality it has little to do with "mean" or "not mean." It is bad husbandry to allow too many roosters to abuse the hens.

 

[Celtic Chick]

I don't think it is mean at all to separate some roos from the hens & a few choice roosters. I would think it meaner to keep all the roos in there and having the girls have to deal with the boys fighting all the time. That would be too stressful for them, I would think. My sister has a few roos in with her flock of hens while the troublemakers are left to free-range in the yard.

 

[Chihuahuamom444]

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[Chihuahuamom444]

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My roos never fight, they get along fine

 

[Chihuahuamom444]

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I think that's what I'm going to do, the boys may not be happy at first but they'll have to deal with it, I know it's normal for them to mate a lot esp in spring but it bugs me and I don't need babies.....a friend of mine is giving me a good size pigeon coop this week so I will clean that all up and make a nice place for the boys

 

[sourland]

Public apology. A simple statement of fact was not meant as a criticism of any form. I was speaking in generalities only as to the husbandry of chickens not your particular situation. Public apology by Sourland George.

 

[Chihuahuamom444]

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No prob, sorry