When do older roos start attacking younger roos?

[Deltabwa]

I'd strongly suggest you get a separate enclosure(s) ready now.....so when it goes bad, which can happen fast, you can immediately separate them.
Whether you finish planned coops or have some foldable wire dog crates ready to erect and go to work.
Wire crates are very good tools for chicken keepers anyway,
I have a half dozen of them and they're great problem solvers,
and saved much bloodshed before I started eating cockerels before they started causing trouble.

Will do, thanks. I have 1 that we are gonna eat but they say 12 weekish? Man he sure isn't appetizing right now! Lol i cant imagine eating him already. But did consider separating him to beef him up so maybe ill do both since the one we are gonna eat is bottom of everything lol. Even the girls push him around.. The crate is a great idea.

 

[aart]

Quote: I slaughter and grill cockerels at between 13-16 weeks.
Nope, not much meat but it's tender enough to grill instead of stew,
that crispy grilled skin is delectable and grilled bones make killer stock.

 

[Deltabwa]

I slaughter and grill cockerels at between 13-16 weeks.
Nope, not much meat but it's tender enough to grill instead of stew,
that crispy grilled skin is delectable and grilled bones make killer stock.

You dont fatten them up at all? I figured i woild just do stock with him.

And sorry for all the typos, this phone is horrible to use!

 

[aart]

Quote: Nope....the egg laying mutts I have don't get real big anyway and it's not worth the feed and hassle to grow them up.
Also don't have the space to grow them out separately. Older hens get slaughtered for stew/stock in fall.
I hatch for replacement layers every year, eat the young cockerels while still tender enough for grilling instead of just stewing, and before they cause trouble harassing the pullets.

 

[Deltabwa]

Nope....the egg laying mutts I have don't get real big anyway and it's not worth the feed and hassle to grow them up.
Also don't have the space to grow them out separately. Older hens get slaughtered for stew/stock in fall.
I hatch for replacement layers every year, eat the young cockerels while still tender enough for grilling instead of just stewing, and before they cause trouble harassing the pullets.

thanks!