We Built A Rooster Only Coop To Save Our Hens 

We've been through this, too, with roosters! They can become challenging. Our last rooster was a beautiful Brahma rooster that we really liked, but he by himself was even too much rooster for a flock of 16 hens. We ended up selling him, because we just didn't have a good reason to keep him if he was too much for our hens. Great video. Very informative! Thanks for your time & effort!

A lot of chicken owners like myself who can't have roosters live vicariously through those like yourself. Thanks for posting your entertaining rooster drama.

You are right Re home or freezer camp are really the only two options. Good luck with the new Rooster for your flock

Thanks for sharing! We hatched out 8 chicks in July and 3 turned out to be Roosters. That makes 7 Roosters now! This is very helpful to know and to build!

When it gets dark,use a red light,kinda blinds them and makes it 5:30 so much easier, when they head to coop

Whoo hoo a Rooster Rodeo 😁

My first flock was a straight run, 4 roosters, 2 hens. A hawk got one hen and the other hen injured herself and we quarantined her. The boys got along well together without any hens. Ultimately I couldn't find anyone that would take them.

Beautiful loft ❤❤❤

bro you got big ones! I would never try to catch my roosters 😂I had 6 roosters to start with, 2 of them were suppose to be girls. I ate 3 of them and now the 3 remaining boys have calmed down and the girls are not getting ragged on as hard. Still no predator deaths. They do a good job of keeping the ospreys, hawks, and eagles from snatching anything up. Great video man. Thanks for sharing! Hope you and the fam are well!

I HAVE TO DO THE SAME EXACT THING.ONE OF MY HENS DIED A FEW DAYS AGO AND I THINK ITS FROM THE ROOSTERS. I WAS GIVING THEM A CHANCE HOPING THEY WOULD BE EXTRA PROTECTION BUT ITS NOT WORKING OUT TOO WELL. .

lol Poor boys..... I only got a couple perty boys but no chasing needed with them. I just gotta go hang out with them a little bit and they'll hop up on my knee for some scratches.

I did the same thing and they started to kill each other one right after each other. Sucks,. I like each one of them. We even had names for all of them as well.

U need to invest in a large fishing net on a pole...they are very cheap, and open enough to not hurt your birds, but strong enough to hold them, and it gives u that few extra feet advantage...way less running around. .and they dont cost much either..

Colorado gets very cold Our coops need to be solid with insulation.

Just bbq the extras

Yep. Done this. Mine will fight if locked up together though. Not always and not all of them, but watch out for it. I think I've heard 1 rooster for every 5 or 6 hens to keep them from over roostering the girls.

Is there a reason why you do this super stressful rooster hunt instead of just picking them from the perch at night and place them in their new home? This seems so much easier to me.

I am doing the same with my roos.

We had 15 hens and 2 regular sized easter egger roosters..They where kind to the girls and good with people .Now the bantam rooster s where just mean

Always catch my roosters at night on the roost. 😊 So much easier.

i like what you do raising chickens and pigs. you are good at taking care of me, i wish i had something like that too. it's nice to watch when there are a lot of pets. to make money. i must have it for the future too.

Get a bird net catcher they work great it works for us

I just separated my roosters too

Thats the way it goes.

You should gather at night when they are on the roost

If they can still see all of the hens, they'll fight. You have to place a bachelor pad somewhere completely separated from the hens where they cannot see them at all.

Rooster round up 😂😂😂

Oh yes I gotta do this. ❤

I love ❤❤❤❤❤

😂how fun!

freezer vacation for my 8 roosters

Pro tip, get a fishing net and catch them much easier and safer!

You should collect them when it’s dark. They can’t see. It’s easier

Great Video

You are supposed to eat the roosters. 😂

One of my egg laying hen just die last week because one of my rooster to agressive he dont let my hen to rest. 😢 Im busy for a few days so i let my rooster to run freely in my yard.

😂 so hard to catch roosters

What are you going to do with the 1 or 2 roosters that u didnt catch?

Fishing net might help

Omg I’m so glad I’m not the only one who “manhandles” the chickens. I pampered and spoiled my chicks indoors until they were good sized. But as soon as I turned them loose in the run with their permanent coop… they will not stand still for me to pick them up and they love to start squirming around and kicking. When watching this video, I saw you doing exactly what I do so I know I’m not the only one now. I’ll sneak up on them and lunge from behind. If I have to open the coop door, I’ll squeeze them around the wings in the crook of my elbow pretty firmly because if they don’t know that you’re the boss they’ll start kicking and scratching to get down as soon as they know you’re going to let them down. I am finished with having scratches all over my legs and arms trying to be gentle and polite. 😂 I used to cuddle them to my chest but I don’t do that anymore either because they’ll snag my earrings. I had to take my nose ring out for a long time because they were fascinated with it. Now I hold them around my waist area and I let their legs dangle while I apply pressure to their back because that’s what the rooster does and they will submit. But if it’s a Rooster … then it becomes a battle. The most important thing I’ve noticed is to spend a lot of time with my roosters on a regular basis. Thankfully, one of my roosters is a bantam and he’s easy to handle and very timid so far. But he’s still very young so that’s going to change. But I’m pretty sure I have two other roosters or at least they’re starting to look like roosters but no 100% confirmation yet. Those two are a mess! One is an Australorp and the other one’s a leg horn. Once I get them calmed down, everything is fine to hold them. But it is always a battle of wills and I have to assert my dominance. I kind of feel guilty and embarrassed that my neighbors probably are laughing at me, but, they don’t have chickens. I also feel like it’s important to keep an emotional distance from the two regular sized roosters because only one of them is staying. The other one… probably dinner. Unfortunately, tractor supply forces you to buy four chicks at a time where I’m at. So if you get straight run, you don’t know if you’ve got a rooster or not, and the odds of getting more than one rooster is pretty high. I tried to sex them in the store, but I wasn’t given quite the opportunity I needed. My local feed store that swore on a stack of Bibles to sell me only pullets may have been wrong. Three of my Australorps have ruddy pink very small combs & wattles. But one of them has bright dark red and getting a very tall comb and its tail is getting longer than all the others so I’m thinking… rooster. That wouldn’t be so bad to breed Australorps and segregate those 4. But that means the leg horn who is scrawny and flighty and terribly smart and probably will be a very tough bird for dinner… it’s going to be the one culled. It’s my only leg horn, it’s white, gets filthy, and while it started out huge as a chick, and I thought it would be a monster, it has stayed bantam size and is skinny, and very nervous compared to all the other chickens. I’m not a fan. So I definitely have to chase that one and grab it and hold it by its legs and let it flap around until it calms down before I can even hold it. You don’t usually see chicken wrangling on these videos, so I was feeling quite guilty. Thanks so much for alleviating my conscience because I’m doing the same thing you’re doing. 😂 I just hope I get 50 eggs a week out of my 10 laying hens since you got 63 eggs from your bakers dozen. 🐓

Aggressive roosters are the best. I don't feel sorry when I eat them 😁.

I say have family around and barbecue those 4 🐓 have a few drinks and have some fun.

I got 8 cockerels out of 14 from our hatch 🤦🏼‍♀️ Good luck rehoming

My rooster started being aggressive too.

We have 6 sex link hens and a friend of ours have 3 roosters and they are fighting with each other so they are giving us one. I’m not sure about putting him with our hens… I’m nervous that he’s going to try and fight with them or who knows what. I don’t think it’s good to just put them together… any advice?

My roosters were too rough on the hens. I became tired of seeing them so beat up.... Bye bye roosters - off to freezer camp!

time for some chicken 🍗 dinner

I do things like this at night.

My end game would be freezer camp

noooo dont eat Caesar 💔

I am laughing that you spent so much time to build this tractor for them, yet neglected to spend a wee bit more time to make moving it easier for yourself. I am not a chicken owner nor do I pretend to be one, you need a rope & a piece of hose. You also need to buy a long handled fishing net.