ROOSTERS OR HENS??

[Michael OShay]

There is 3 different birds here. The first looks like a hen. Pic 2 and 3 is the same bird and pic 4 and 5 are the same bird.

That's what I thought. You're right about the top bird being a hen. The bird in pic 2 and 3 is a cockerel, and the bird in pic 4 and 5 is also a cockerel.

 

[The Colonel]

That's what I thought. You're right about the top bird being a hen. The bird in pic 2 and 3 is a cockerel, and the bird in pic 4 and 5 is also a cockerel.

X2

 

[nohobbymomma]

What am I supposed to do with 3 roosters and 4 hens?? I am not into eating my pets.

 

[keesmom]

What am I supposed to do with 3 roosters and 4 hens?? I am not into eating my pets.

Build a bachelor pad for the males. List them on craigslist or in your feed store and don't ask questions. You won't be able to keep them all together.

Sexed pullet chicks or started birds will be the way to go the next time if you do not want males.

 

[donrae]

Build a bachelor pad for the males. List them on craigslist or in your feed store and don't ask questions. You won't be able to keep them all together.

Sexed pullet chicks or started birds will be the way to go the next time if you do not want males.

This. You actually did very well for straight run. Your choices are to keep the males as non-producing pets, housed apart from the hens (or let one lucky guy live with the hens and house the others in a bachelor pad), or sell the roosters and accept some may get eaten. Or, third option, get a few dozen more hens so everyone's happy

. Either way, that many roosters will make life miserable for your hens if they all stay together.

 

[Michael OShay]

This. You actually did very well for straight run. Your choices are to keep the males as non-producing pets, housed apart from the hens (or let one lucky guy live with the hens and house the others in a bachelor pad), or sell the roosters and accept some may get eaten. Or, third option, get a few dozen more hens so everyone's happy

. Either way, that many roosters will make life miserable for your hens if they all stay together.

X2 on donrae. The recommended ratio of roosters to hens is 1 rooster for every 10 hens as too many roosters will become very hard physically on your hens as they mature; over-breeding them, biting and plucking the feathers from their necks and backs, battering them and potentially seriously injuring them. The only reason you really need a rooster is to fertilize eggs for hatching, and 1 rooster can easily handle 10 hens in this regard.