Too many Roosters????

[GeorgeNothing]

In April of 2024, I bought 11 beautiful Silkie Chicks, but I didn't know if they were male or female. And after four months , two of them started to crow and I finally decided to see which ones are roosters and which ones are hens, and after 15 minutes of looking at them, there were only 3 hens and 8 roosters. What do I do?

 

[21hens-incharge]

There are a few options.
If you don't want to have that many you can post on Craigslist, put up flyers in the feed stores, and advertise them here https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/chickens-8-weeks-older.35/

If you want to keep them you can try a bachelor flock. That means a coop and run of just the males. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. I would say more often than not it doesn't work and things get nasty.

Then there is culling them by doing them in.

 

[fluffycrow]

Sell, cull, eat, rehome, set up bachelor groups.



If you free range, some of the rogue cockerels might be taken out by predators