bachelor flock

Hi all, I recently hatched out six serama chicks (offspring of one of my beloved roosters who passed away) and while obviously I was expecting cockerels, I ended up with four of them! I love roosters, and plan on keeping them all, but since this is my first experience with a bachelor flock, I...

I hatched 20 of my own eggs and came up with at least 14 cockerels. They are Production Red x Prairie Bluebell mainly, and are flighty, active, and a number of them are aggressive to each other and me. They are only 5 weeks old, and about the size of a songbird, not quite the size of a pigeon...

Still new to chickens here and looking for some advice. We’re considering a bachelor flock for our six boys 😱 Different sizes, the little guys leave the big girls alone and (most of) the big guys leave the small girls alone. We have one Brahma rooster crushing badly on a 1lb bantam hen but...

I have raised 2 "flocks" of chicks, I'm currently on number 3. Each time, I've waited FAR too long to get rid of roosters (in fact, I made a bachelor pad for some I couldn't stand to see go!) I think this go round I have at least 4 out of 10. 😥 What age do you cull your roos? Do you do it as...

Hello all! I am new and have been searching the forums and articles but having a bit of trouble finding the specific info I need, so I am sorry if I have missed it somewhere, but hoping I can get some tips or even, perhaps some direction, if this info is somewhere I just am not looking. My main...

I find myself raising 13 ducklings and a gosling, and pretty soon need to decide who to keep. We’re pretty set on keeping the gosling because it’s so, so sweet and then would like to keep all one gender of some of the ducklings. Five are drakes, and I am considering keeping them as a bachelor...

This year, I decided to hatch some Bielefelders and d'Uccles for fun/breeding/maybe showing. COVID stopped the showing, but I've still got the birds. Well, with hatching comes extra cockerels. Didn't have an extreme excess, so I read about bachelor flocks and decided to try it. 2 d'Uccles and 3...

We have a small bachelor flock (4 boys) and recently two of them have been acting broody. I've even caught the alpha guarding one of them while he nests and makes broody hen noises. There are a couple other threads on here discussing broody roosters, but I thought folks might enjoy the video...

Hello! Long time listener, first time caller. We have a small farmstead in the North Quabbin area of Massachussets. We are maybe a little beyond "backyard" in the sense that we have a full size barn, two additional coops, and plans to build another. We're not a commercial operation though and...

I hatched out 8 babies and, of course, 5 were boys. But I love roosters because without hens they are wonderful little pets. So, how far away from the hens do I need to put my bachelor flock so I don’t have fighting and sneak attacks?

I thought this had some pretty good information - http://www.poultrydvm.com/featured-infographic/tips-for-keeping-bachelor-flocks

After letting one of our broody hens set, I am anticipating we will have several cockerels out of the 8 that were hatched. Has anyone had success keeping a bachelor flock (separated from the hens)? Will they "get along" as they mature, or is aggression and fighting an inherent behavior amongst...