Show me your Rooster Bachelor Pads!!!!!

[silkiechicken]

It's just always rainy and wet here. Chilly, but maybe only a few weeks of freezing weather all winter and at most a week of snow. Maybe a handfull of nights in the teens. A non insulated tractor is just fine in western washington.

And you can eat silkies and other bantams. The black meat on silkies is considered a medicinal delicacy with benifical properties to make soup from.

 

[Heather J]

I know you can eat bantams, but we process our own, and it hardly seems worth the day's labor for the tiny bit of meat. On the other hand, the local meat packing place will do them for a couple bucks each, so maybe we'll go that direction if we decide it's time to downsize. it depends on whether I decide the silkies are my pets or my livestock--I treat the standard chickens the same as geese and ducks as far as care, but the water birds in my head are pets, where as the chickens are more livestock (of course, this new cochin chick will never be eaten because dh is already way too attached to him, lol).

 

[Smitty's Farm]

Thank you bodyflight, chikenlady & coffeelady for posting your pics.

bodyflight you did a great job building the coop all by yourself!!!!!!

That looks great!

Chikenlady how big is that cute little mini barn? I know what you mean about separating the roos. I just re-homed 4 the other day.

Coffeelady I totally see that working out for a rooster bachelor pad.

Thanks again for posting everyone. It's giving me some great ideas.

Ok everyone....keep the pics coming. I know there has to be more bachelor rooster pads out there. They all can't be going to the freezer.

 

[GopherBoyFarms]

ok, i dont wanna sound stupid....but here it goes...........Do I need to seperate my rooster from the girls? We have 18 girls and 1 rooster. All the same age. Most if not all the eggs we crack look to be fertile....we have no problem with that. If I was to seperate them I dont even see the point of having him.

 

[Smitty's Farm]

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No you don't have to seperate him from the girls. I think the one roo to 7-10 hens is the ratio.

I don't have a problem eating fert eggs either, but I just think my Napoleon is a little over zealous. He's loved most the girls saddle feathers off and they need a break to grow them back.

I just wish I would have seperated him sooner before it got so bad.

I didn't have enough chicken saddle to cover all the girls. LOL!!!!!

 

[Heather J]

When we first got our girls last winter (someone gave them to us because he had too many hens go broody and wanted to clear some out) we had three roosters, and between the three of them they pretty well removed all the saddle feathers from 5 of the 6 hens. We've rehomed two of the roosters, but I don't want to undergo that again, so we'll be keeping the ratios down in the future. When we get our new coop built we're going to separate all my roosters while the juvies grow up, and I might throw my main rooster in with them for a while as the saddle feathers are just now starting to grow back. I'll mix him in with the rest of the flock again when we're done.