Wait, what's wrong with having roosters or multiple roosters?

[Barbeque]

Is it okay to have roosters?
Mine are only 2 weeks old, almost 3.
The lady I bought them from couldn't sex them, so I just picked the ones I liked the most.
Sooo...is it bad? What if they are all roosters?
I'm not interested in eating them.
Oh and is a Frizzle a bantam?

 

[LeBlackbird]

Having several roosters and few hens will lead to the roosters stripping the feathers off a hen when they mate. They may also fight, and kill eachother

As for frizzle, frizzling is a variety, not a breed. This varietie is in standards and LF

 

[Bandit]

The things you need to think about with roosters are: crowing and annoying the neighbors, and being really aggressive to you and hurting you or your kids. Some aren't very aggressive but some are.

 

[SkyWarrior]

If there are no hens, the roos generally behave. But if you have multiple roos and a few hens, not good. They will fight. Roos will also crow -- a lot.

 

[daniduck]

All of the above is true, BUT if you raise them all together, and keep them all together from chicks they are less likely to do those things. Of our orginally 9, four of them were roosters, they each had a preferred lady and for the most part never bickered amongst themselves. Right now they are learning who is the top dog and who is the bottom. They will sort most of that out between themselves long before you can tell who's a roo and who's a hen. Then you might not have to worry about them fighting unless one decides that he doesn't want to be bottom rooster anymore. You might just have to see, if you have two roos and only one has a really dominating personality you might be alright, but if they both do, then they will never stop fighting and you might have to get rid of one... or set up a second coop with his own ladies...

 

[Tala]

The main problem is them tearing up your hens. They will overmate the ladies, and tear all their feathers up bad.
I had 2 roos in with 8 hens, and they didn't fight each other, but they tortured one hen so bad that she quit laying!! I butchered the spare to eat ( he was good btw, even at 30 weeks) and she recently started laying again.

I'm keeping 3 roosters for some specific breeding later this year, but I'm not gonna let them harass the hens again. I built a bachelor pad for growing out the "extras" to eat, to keep them off the girls too.

 

[4 luv of eggs]

The crowing is what bothers me. I'm the only one on our street zoned residential. We have 2 acres. Everyone else has more property and is zoned agricultural. If I can only keep hens, I might be able to slip under the radar. So DH said no roos. I'm pretty sure my one Wyandottes is a roo.

One of my neighbors has a roo and he starts crowing at 4:30 a.m. and crows all day. Luckily I live far enough away that it's a faint, distant sound. I love to listen for it.

 

[GrannySue]

I have learned never to say never but I strongly doubt that I'll ever have a roo on my property. People across the road had one for a while (raccoon got him eventually) and it drove me crazy! Crowed all day from pre-dawn to dusk.

 

[Sweet Violet]

where do you live? What is the zoning law for your property? If you live in a suburb you won't be allowed to own a roo and it won't take long before a neighbor turns you in.