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The ONLY roos who have "too few" hens are the banty Cochins, Marsh and Mellow. Let me also say that they do NOT have rude manners towards their hens at all. Marsh has his 5 or so hens, Mellow has his 6 or so, they kind of swap around, but no hen is harrassed, the roos sit on eggs when the hens take a break, and they both are busy defending their banty girls.
A roo is a bully and jerk to his hens after the teenaged hormones, no way, no how, he is a stew pot roo. A mean roo produces mean chicks who turn into mean adults. I'd rather have "ugly" barnyard mutt well mannered chickens than beatiful to primo standard mean chickens. I can fix the standard sooner than I can fix the temperment.
Speaking of which, there is a blue Orp hen who is going to be in the stewpot. She's gotten NASTY to every chicken and person other than DH and me. Plus she lays a dang green eggs, so I know she's not an Orp anyway. Why the heck can't I get a NICE Orp????