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Official BYC Poll: Do You Keep a Rooster?
- Thread starter BantyChooks
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No, never.
They are against the rules
where I live. 
They are against the rules
where I live. 
No fertile eggs to support my incubation addiction without any roosters.
It really depends on ones' situation. It is never a one size fits all.
If someone lives in the city and is only allowed 3 or 4 chickens, then no. Keeping a rooster there wouldn't be prudent.
If there are no prohibiting ordinances, one has more space and more hens then it is absolutely a good idea to have roosters.
At any one time, I may have between 40 and 100 chickens so it isn't unusual for me to have from 5-15 roosters.
If one is breeding and producing chicks, they don't want to get down to one rooster because if he gives himself up for the flock, you are out of business.
Add to that, if one is raising a specific breed, they should be striving for the best representatives of the breed. If that breeder only has a single rooster, they have nothing to compare him to except the SOP. However, if someone has 10 or 20 or 30 roosters, it is much simpler to improve the breed by selecting the best representatives for breeding purposes. It is then usually easy to identify candidates for culling.
If someone lives in the city and is only allowed 3 or 4 chickens, then no. Keeping a rooster there wouldn't be prudent.
If there are no prohibiting ordinances, one has more space and more hens then it is absolutely a good idea to have roosters.
At any one time, I may have between 40 and 100 chickens so it isn't unusual for me to have from 5-15 roosters.
If one is breeding and producing chicks, they don't want to get down to one rooster because if he gives himself up for the flock, you are out of business.
Add to that, if one is raising a specific breed, they should be striving for the best representatives of the breed. If that breeder only has a single rooster, they have nothing to compare him to except the SOP. However, if someone has 10 or 20 or 30 roosters, it is much simpler to improve the breed by selecting the best representatives for breeding purposes. It is then usually easy to identify candidates for culling.
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The Happster
Happs
4 delightfully handsome cockerels.
I would have more but I would probably be clapped in a jail cell and left to rot.
I would have more but I would probably be clapped in a jail cell and left to rot.
RebelEgger
Free Ranging
Didn’t plan on having one, then didn’t plan on keeping one, but I love him. Now that we have worked out our differences and we have an understanding of each other.
I say ‘hello jerk’ every morning lol
My handsome Gwynnie
I say ‘hello jerk’ every morning lol
My handsome Gwynnie
bit-by-the-BY-chik-Bug
Chirping
2 of our 6 female sexed chicks turned out to be males.
No, never.
They are against the rules
Maybe no roosters but you keep enough quail cocks to feed your incubation addiction.
They don't make noise.
Maybe no roosters but you keep enough quail cocks to feed your incubation addiction.
SnapdragonQ
It's coffee o'clock!
In nearly 15 years of chicken keeping I rarely kept one on purpose. Getting fertile eggs or just hatched chicks for a broody hen was easy and my goals were egg based so I did not need them. Nearly all the roos I ended up with (because it always happens) during that time were, well...not nice, so found themselves dwelling elsewhere in a variety of places, just no longer on my farm!
Currently I lucked out with a really nice (and quiet) Australorp roo so he gets to stay and thus far is making gorgeous blue babies.
And, for the first time ever, early this year I purposely purchased male chicks plus bought shipped eggs in the hopes of getting some males. I did, so now I'm on a breeding adventure and am hoping to keep 3 or 4 more around permanently.
In the past I have purposely kept tom turkeys and love them!
Currently I lucked out with a really nice (and quiet) Australorp roo so he gets to stay and thus far is making gorgeous blue babies.
And, for the first time ever, early this year I purposely purchased male chicks plus bought shipped eggs in the hopes of getting some males. I did, so now I'm on a breeding adventure and am hoping to keep 3 or 4 more around permanently.
In the past I have purposely kept tom turkeys and love them!
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