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It is always hard, until you see how much better the flock is.

As I stated in the beginning of this post, which I think also applies to your situation, is that the really important decision is to only have 1 rooster with 5 hens. Spring is coming and so is the possible trouble with two roosters and 5 hens. It probably does not matter which one you pick...

This is off post, but I strongly recommend raising a cockerel under older hens. It is not perfect 100% of the time, but I think that you get better chicken society.

Very interesting, whenever I have introduced a new rooster, they have all been in love before morning. I really have never seen what I would call grief. They have been discombobulated after a predator attack, (which I have had way too many), but within two or three days they are back to normal...

I still think that is a coincidence. Generally speaking, (kind of sort of as they are animals and who really knows) I think that dominant hens refuse less dominant roosters, roosters that are young, tend to be less dominant. An older alpha rooster should be covering them. It will be...

I think you are misinterpreting this behavior. Chickens really do not have that long of memory. And they really have very limited loyalty and none at all to a bird that is no longer there. Those are human traits, not chicken traits. I do think that they may not be submitting to the rooster, and...

You really cannot tell...yet, what I think I am hearing is that you planned on keeping that boy and ARE picking up some bad vibes, and are second guessing yourself. Personally, I suppose over the years, I have had 10-12 roosters, maybe more. Never have I had one that really outgrew bad...

The thing is, it is common for us people to not to want to make the wrong mistake and cull the wrong bird. But that is not the mistake. The real mistake is putting off and not culling them while you try and make up your mind. I think there are 4 boys? - Cull half of them, wait a week, cull the...