Is it true that roosters will not fight much (if at all) if...

[Buster]

I have 5 roosters free ranging with my flock- 1 Buff Orp, 1 Splash Orp, 1 EE, 1 D'uccle and 1 Silkie. They are out with 20 hens/pullets and about 8 half grown chicks. They don't seem to have problems getting along. I took my time introducing them all so that I wouldn't have to keep them in 6 different breeding pens for winter. There is definitely an alpha but he doesn't try to kill the others- just keeps them from breeding.

 

[Sissy]

the boss has 5 hens with him and the sweet one
in her cage has her mrs. but all thats changed took sweet and her /mrs to another coop we were trying to keep them all in the large coop for warmth. but that didnt work I guess Boss
dosent want any company even if they are caged.
and on the other side of the coop.

 

[la dee da]

I think I'm just going to have a couple of breeding coops with roos and their hens. Of course, I can't make my final desition until the time actually comes and I add up the cost

. I might decide to desensatize myself to eating fertile eggs...but again I'll make that decision later when I have chickens. I'm going to post a different thread asking if fertile eggs do last as long as nonfertile, that or just try and find it in the search. Thanks everyone for you greatly appreciated help

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[Bec]

I have a total of 19 chickens, 2 roos and 17 hens. The roos hang out together all day with no problems. Every so often the lower one will try to fluff up at the head roo and he puts him right back in his place and they go on. We have never had anything more than a little scuffle. Mine were raised together from about 8 weeks and up. I don;t know if this is the norm or not, but mine do just fine!

Good luck with whatever you choose to do!

 

[dancingbear]

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Good for you! It may be easier to de-sensitize if you keep in mind that the difference between fertile and infertile is only one cell.

Nearly all of my eggs are fertile, and they keep a long time. at least 2 months. If I were to coat them with vegetable oil to seal them better, they'd last longer. (I used to do that, a long time ago) I haven't had any actually spoil while storing, but I don't think I've ever kept any past 3 months, at the most. I don't sell the ones that are over 2 weeks old, and if I haven't either sold or used them by the time they're 2 months old, I make huge batches of hard boiled eggs, make egg salad, feed some back to the chickens, make deviled eggs, and give some away. That rarely happens, though, they usually sell pretty quickly. I've had no complaints from customers about eggs going bad.

 

[la dee da]

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Good for you! It may be easier to de-sensitize if you keep in mind that the difference between fertile and infertile is only one cell.

Nearly all of my eggs are fertile, and they keep a long time. at least 2 months. If I were to coat them with vegetable oil to seal them better, they'd last longer. (I used to do that, a long time ago) I haven't had any actually spoil while storing, but I don't think I've ever kept any past 3 months, at the most. I don't sell the ones that are over 2 weeks old, and if I haven't either sold or used them by the time they're 2 months old, I make huge batches of hard boiled eggs, make egg salad, feed some back to the chickens, make deviled eggs, and give some away. That rarely happens, though, they usually sell pretty quickly. I've had no complaints from customers about eggs going bad.

Thanks for the info on the fertile eggs

. The more I think about it, the less gross it feels about eating fertile eggs, but I won't know for sure until I have that egg sitting in front of me staring me in the face

. If I won't be able to bring myself to eating an overeasy, then I'll probably just start with baking with them, then scrambling then eating them overeasy.