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Ribh said:
@Shadrach advice please as you're the roosterist. I can take a frizzled rooster just starting to crow or a frizzled rooster chick with a pair of hens. Which would you recommend? Either way, with so many mature hens, I expect any rooster, however feisty, will quickly get put in his place. Anything I should anticipate ~ & yes, I'm about to reread your article!
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My advice is don't get a rooster.
Your chickens are pets and you like being able to handle them.
If you get a rooster I fear many of the things you like to do with your chickens will become a lot more difficult.
The hens will become his hens; not your hens and the process of him making them his hens can be distressing to witness. Your relationship with your hens will change and things you used to be able to do with your hens will become far more difficult.
While such problems can be overcome and a relationship with the rooster where he no longer sees you as competition can be established it is often a lot of work and may take months.

One of the problems that can be difficult to explain to people without them taking umbrage is one needs good mobility to deal with establishing a working relationship with a rooster and my understanding is you don't have this. Young ones in particular are fast. Most will test you at some point.
Many of the rooster problems I read of on BYC are made worse by the simple fact that the keepers are just not aware enough or fast enough to forsee aggression problems and react with the necessary speed.

However, if you do decide to get a rooster then given the breed diversity of your tribe it probably won't matter what breed you get. What does matter is the size of the rooster. Pick one that is the average size of the hens and if you can find an a mature rooster, over say three years old or even an elderly male who is used to free ranging.
 
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