When should roos move out

[newcitychickmama]

Update... They boys left yesterday. I have a friend that took them.

 

[aart]

Update... They boys left yesterday. I have a friend that took them.

Awesome!

 

[ChikinDaddy]

Ok So I don't want to Hijack th OPs thread but I am curious. I have a new flock of 22, 7-8wks everyone gets along at this point but I know for certain I have 2 or maybe more Roos. They have grown up since the beginning together, am I going to have to separate them?

 

[bobbi-j]

Ok So I don't want to Hijack th OPs thread but I am curious. I have a new flock of 22, 7-8wks everyone gets along at this point but I know for certain I have 2 or maybe more Roos. They have grown up since the beginning together, am I going to have to separate them?

Possibly. With 22 of them, they may separate into two flocks, or if you have two coops you could divide them up yourself. Or, they could all end up being one happy family, or there could be a flock with one rooster and one rooster outside the flock. The only way to really know is give it a try.

 

[ScottKelly1974]

Ok So I don't want to Hijack th OPs thread but I am curious. I have a new flock of 22, 7-8wks everyone gets along at this point but I know for certain I have 2 or maybe more Roos. They have grown up since the beginning together, am I going to have to separate them?

Last year I had a hatch flock. They grew up with three hens in charge. One hen hatched and raised them, but I kept them together so there would not be any problems. Three turned out to be roosters. and from three different breeds. They got along with everyone. When they started to mature, the roosters banded together when I came into the cage and would stay away from me. They got along and would mate with the 'mother' hen. They tried to mate with the other two hens, but they fought back. Eventually they did mate with all three adult hens. As the pullets from their batch matures, they would begin to mate with them. I now have four new pullets that are about three months younger than the other hens, and the room did not interact with them until they matured.

In my experience, the three roosters growing up together all got along. Free ranging them seem to help with any possible conflicts between hens. It would also be helpful to try to handle the entire flock every day. The roosters will get to know you as being the master instead of some stranger they need to protect the flock from. Also it would allow you to be able to handle the roosters as adults since they would be used to holding. But at the same time my roosters did not want to be held. So when I do hold them, they put little or no resistance.

 

[RWise]

It will work until it doesn't, then things get ugly fast. I had 3 cocks team up on a larger cock (same age/hatch), I got there in time, but,,,
I myself now keep any cocks I keep in private quarters, with only 1 rooster on the flock.

 

[RodNTN]

I have never had a problem with an aggressive cockerel in the brooder (they go out too soon to get to that point). But with my OEG's, when they start crowing!

 

[ScottKelly1974]

It will work until it doesn't, then things get ugly fast. I had 3 cocks team up on a larger cock (same age/hatch), I got there in time, but,,,
I myself now keep any cocks I keep in private quarters, with only 1 rooster on the flock.

I sold two of the roosters. What was going on: they would gang up on mating with the hen who raised them. I noticed they would each mate with her one after another. It was like they each wanted to be the last to mate with her. The hen was looking warn out. So I separated them; only keeping the one Buff Orpington - the breed I started with.

 

[RWise]

I wish I could sell roosters, I cant even give them away,,,

 

[aart]

I wish I could sell roosters, I cant even give them away,,,

Me Too!
Tho I just ate the last of the 2017 cockerels, it was deelish!
I have a t least 6 more out there now at 10 and 3 weeks old...
....I'm gonna need a bigger freezer and more slaughter days stamina.