Oh, I guess the moral of my story is that I had one beyond rehabbing. He had to go. But I also ended up with one that has worked out well so far after rehabbing. I think it all just depends on the rooster.
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Thanks again for your comments. We are at 20 weeks now, so I could have preemptively started handling my roosters of choice weeks ago to try and habilitate them. Just a thought. Another question if you don't mind. The cockerels at 20 weeks taste better than at 16 weeks, but I had to cull most of them at 16 weeks due to flock behavior. The dominant cockerels were guarding the food and too many chickens were hiding on their roosts, not out on the range. In the future, could I separate the cockerels from the pullets and keep them longer? How much longer? Would they have to be out of site of the pullets? I am assumming that absent the pullets their behaviour would be better.