To many roosters, bachelor pen.

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Mrs. K said:
To the original poster, I would suggest that you separate all of the roosters, then add one back to the pullets when they start laying. Adding a rooster is an easy integration. Pullets with immature, but randy roosters is a mess. The rooster is often bigger than the pullets and without bigger birds, often times turns into a bully, and can be quite mean to the pullets.

I would also recommend making a real effort ASAP to re-home as many of the roosters as possible, it would not be realistic to expect that many roosters to get along. Wishing just does not work, many on here will recommend culling them, not because they are mean or heartless, but rather, from prior experience, roosters are a crap shoot, and can go from the darling to the nightmare in a moment.

With roosters, you need a plan B set up, and ready to go, a way to separate fighting roosters, a place to put them when you do have them separated.

As AArt - a respected poster here, often says, roosters are where the romance meets the reality of chickens.

I would not expect that many roosters to work for the long term. And they will need a fair size set up.

MRs K
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You really got me thinking, you are right, I don't know if 12 roosters in one pen will get along for life... No, they probably won't and I hate to see them killing each other. I need to think of their comfort and their quality of life, not just what I want. I know I might need to rehome them, but who would want roosters? I have never rehomed any chickens.
 
And that is the big problem with this hobby, what to do with the roosters?

People do sometimes get someone else to take them, you could contact a poetry club or 4-H club.

You can advertise on Craigslist or other social media, do not ask questions as to their use for the birds. I see that you are not in favor of eating them, but one bad moment, quickly ending a life, is better than being killed in a bloody fight.

Not an easy thing to do, a really tough part of raising chickens, but realistically, I would expect things to get quite ugly unless you truly have huge amounts of space, and a great deal of luck. I am reasonably sure that you would be against cock fights, but truthfully that is what you are setting up. A few roosters, maybe can, maybe can't get along, but the more roosters you have, the less likely it will work.

Mrs K
 
Mrs. K said:
And that is the big problem with this hobby, what to do with the roosters?

People do sometimes get someone else to take them, you could contact a poetry club or 4-H club.

You can advertise on Craigslist or other social media, do not ask questions as to their use for the birds. I see that you are not in favor of eating them, but one bad moment, quickly ending a life, is better than being killed in a bloody fight.

Not an easy thing to do, a really tough part of raising chickens, but realistically, I would expect things to get quite ugly unless you truly have huge amounts of space, and a great deal of luck.

Mrs K
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But they are bantams, they are small, who eats bantams? :O
 
Has anybody had any success in keeping +10 rooster together without serious fights for a long period of time (years)?
 

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