Lost 2 of 3 roosters from the bachelor pen

[robinhawks]

I lost 2 of the 3 boys who have always been together. The 1 that is left is now all alone and keeps looking for his brothers. My question is do I try to find other boys or should I get him some girlfriends. He has never been around females.

 

[casportpony]

Welcome to BYC and sorry for your losses. If he were mine I would get him some hens.

 

[Ebony Rose]

If you have the space and desire for eggs, why not get him some girlfriends? Preferably just started pullets (under a year old and recently started laying). You will pay a premium for these girls, but you're guaranteed that they're hens AND laying. You will still need to do a proper quarantine of these girls before being introduced to your good boy, and you can speed the introduction time, the time when you finally can let them live together, if this quarantine time is distant enough from your cockerel/rooster for bio-safety, but close enough that they can see and hear each other. Skipping the quarantine process puts the new hens AND the cockerel/rooster at risk of catching what the other group has, and could prove fatal.
Just having these girls nearby will brighten your lonely dudes days until the day that they can join into one flock.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Do you have any other chickens?