Too Many Roosters

[Lorettachick]

I have too many roosters in my flock.....6 hens and 5 roosters. I can't bear to part with any of them since we have raised them from chicks but they are really torturing my hens. Would they do okay if I put them in a pen all by themselves. They don't fight each other in with the hens as they have already established dominance order. Will they do ok with each other in a pen with no hens??

 

[Judy]

As I understand it. they do fine penned together if they aren't too close to the hens, so they feel like they have to ocompete for dominance.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

We had a pen with 18 roosters in it up until yesterday (yummy!) and they were fine. Some sparring for dominance, but no blood drawn and that is the main thing.

 

[Connie Winner]

A field full of stallions or bulls etc. can all live together....as long as no females are around! I have the same problem of sorts, I have a rooster and a hen that had 5 babies, 2 turned out to be roosters, those two are sticking together, with the "dad" keeping them in check! Since they were born I had ordered 15 hens of different breeds. So ALL the chicks were raised together with the mom & dad...but now there is a chasing territory thing going on! I don't have a place to put the young two roos anywhere, and I don't want them to be free range, although I could, but then I feel bad for them to try to fend for themselves. And I really like the dad, a Rhode Island Red, and want him. So I'm not sure what to do!!

 

[cluckcluckluke]

I have too many roosters in my flock.....6 hens and 5 roosters. I can't bear to part with any of them since we have raised them from chicks but they are really torturing my hens. Would they do okay if I put them in a pen all by themselves. They don't fight each other in with the hens as they have already established dominance order. Will they do ok with each other in a pen with no hens??

Yes!
It is called a rooster Pad.lol.
As long as the roosters are a fare distance away from the hens, then they won't have the need to compete.