Show me your Rooster Bachelor Pads!!!!!

[EllyMae]

I use a dog house for my rooster. Here is a pic...don't laugh...it started out as a temporary playpen for my baby chicks...but was later turned into a rooster house, lol. My girls live in a separate coop.

He gets to free range when I'm home to supervise him, lol.

 

[scooter147]

Smitty

The rooster in the cage gets to get out with the rest of the flock for about and hour/hour half each evening when I let them free range. Then he gets to roost with them and then I place him back in the cage in the morning.
The hens run from him when they free range, plus Slyvester makes sure he doesn't get a romantic chance with the girls.

 

[Smitty's Farm]

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That's really cute! Thanks for posting!

It looks like it has everything he needs.

I was thinking a dog house might work for Napoleaon. Is the dog house tall enough for a roost?

 

[Smitty's Farm]

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Thanks!!!!! I let Napoleon free range all day and then he sleeps in the run at night. We don't let him free range w/ the girls in the evening either. He needs to be totally separated for now. It works out fine for now, but I need to think of something to protect him from the elements this winter.

I was letting him coop w/ the girls at night, but he was getting frisky w/ them in the mornings before I let them out. I tried to let them all free range together the other evening, but he was running as fast as he could to any girl he could find.

 

[EllyMae]

Smitty's Farm :

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That's really cute! Thanks for posting!

It looks like it has everything he needs.

I was thinking a dog house might work for Napoleaon. Is the dog house tall enough for a roost?

Yes. I think it would be. It wouldn't be a tall roost, but it would get him off the ground at least several inches.​

 

[cheraboo]

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I can totally picture this in my head!

We just got a couple of roosters (which I know nothing about) so this is great info

 

[DawnSuiter]

That is my single rooster coop...right now two are in it for quarentine from a poultry show

and this is how I built it: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=81628

and here is the coop I furiously built ALONE last weekend because a storm was on it's way and their wimpy little tractor wouldn't handle a hurricane rain.... its' not finished.. still need a row of chicken wire on the top open part and to add a door.. and a permanent TufTex (plastic tinted) roof. But they have been living in for a week now. Sorry about the pic quality...will get good pics when it's completed. It's currently home to 5 roosters and is about 48sf plus the upper roosting area. Roost has a dropping pit behind it and I use sand everywhere including here onthe shelf and the ground.

 

[chikenlady]

Here is mine! I have tried to sell/ give some roosters away. I have only rehomed one! I have two Black Australorp Roos making this their home now. The small coop and run are outside next to my larger coop area. They would rather be with the girls and other Roo, but there is too much fighting and "mating" going on without them being seperated.

 

[coffeelady3]

Mine's not used for Roos, but it could work. It's a dog house that I attached a pen to. Here's a pic.

 

[Heather J]

Thanks for starting this thread. We've always put our extra roos in the freezer, but with our silkies and cochins coming, dh and I decided they were way too small to bother with that, so I'll rehome and/or create a bachelor quarters for them when they get old enough for the large number to become a problem. These are great coops, everyone. Thanks!