Cluck5,
Unless you're absolutely sure which rooster is NOT hurting your pullets, I'd separate all 3 cockerals from your pullets. I don't think you said how old they all are (cockerals and pullets) or how many you have of each. But separating out the cockerals from the pullets is fairly common practice. I did this at around 16 weeks old. I had 8 cockerals and it allowed me time to evaluate them and gave the pullets time to mature without the cockerals pestering them and causing them stress. Cockerals at this age are not very mature, they will run down the pullets to mate with them and just take them, not being polite about it in the least. If your 3 cockerals grew up together, they will not likely fight much off by themselves. In fact, the conflict often goes down when they're off by themselves if they don't have pullets to fight over.
I picked 2 cockerals from the 8 and put those 2 back with the pullets at about 20 weeks. That re-introduction was easy as they were within sight of each other a good part of the time they were separated because the cockerals were behind a fence but the pullets free ranged. I prepared the 6 extra cockerals for the dinner table. I learned how to do it following the color pictures in "The Small-Scale Poultry Flock" by Harvey Ussery. It's not that hard to do, really. It was sad, however, to kill the cockerals, even the ornery ones and I had a few of them too. I never, ever feel good about killing any living thing no matter what it's personality was. But, preparing a chicken for the dinner table is part of the process of keeping chickens in my view and can be done with grace as well.
Hope this helps,
Guppy
Unless you're absolutely sure which rooster is NOT hurting your pullets, I'd separate all 3 cockerals from your pullets. I don't think you said how old they all are (cockerals and pullets) or how many you have of each. But separating out the cockerals from the pullets is fairly common practice. I did this at around 16 weeks old. I had 8 cockerals and it allowed me time to evaluate them and gave the pullets time to mature without the cockerals pestering them and causing them stress. Cockerals at this age are not very mature, they will run down the pullets to mate with them and just take them, not being polite about it in the least. If your 3 cockerals grew up together, they will not likely fight much off by themselves. In fact, the conflict often goes down when they're off by themselves if they don't have pullets to fight over.
I picked 2 cockerals from the 8 and put those 2 back with the pullets at about 20 weeks. That re-introduction was easy as they were within sight of each other a good part of the time they were separated because the cockerals were behind a fence but the pullets free ranged. I prepared the 6 extra cockerals for the dinner table. I learned how to do it following the color pictures in "The Small-Scale Poultry Flock" by Harvey Ussery. It's not that hard to do, really. It was sad, however, to kill the cockerals, even the ornery ones and I had a few of them too. I never, ever feel good about killing any living thing no matter what it's personality was. But, preparing a chicken for the dinner table is part of the process of keeping chickens in my view and can be done with grace as well.
Hope this helps,
Guppy