Seperating extra roos out.

[jessierose]

I posted awhile back that I had bought 4 "hens" and then 3 of them started crowing. Ha. Lesson learned!
The same thing has happened to my neighbor and he still has 3 roosters in with 3 hens. They are just beginning to lay.
I am not going to butt into his business but out of curiosity I was wondering when you should seperate out extra roos. Will the extras make the layers less likely to produce well? Won't the roos stress the ladies out?

 

[gritsar]

Too many roos will stress the hens out and their backs will get torn up with the roosters competing to mate them. Stressed hens lay less eggs.

I had three extra roos. I found homes for them as soon as I was certain they were roos.

 

[ShaggysGirl]

We just last week sent 5 roos to SIL he'll send them to freezer camp. We kept two they were 12 weeks old and starting to fight a bit. Hardest thing to do decide which to keep.

 

[jessierose]

Yeah, I am with you on that! I still have my extra roos in a seperate coop because I can't bring myself to sending them with my brother to...um....camp.
It is kinda nice having them to clean up between the rows of my gardens in their portable run but I need to cull them out soon. Can't keep feeding and tending extras. I keep listing them on Freecycle and Sell My Stuff but you can't give roos away around here!