Roosters

We got "straight run" when we bought our chicks last spring. So we ended up with 28 roosters and 22 hens. The roosters had been pecking the hens a lot and eating the feathers off of their backs, so I moved most of the roosters to another yard. I left Goldy and Collar (our two dominant roosters) with the hens. Twisty gets to stay with the hens too, since he is very small & immature & his beak is too deformed to ever breed & pass on that poor trait. I don't think he'd survive very long with 24 maturing roosters.
When I originally divided the hens & roosters up, I accidentally left a couple of other roosters with the hens. They were not mature enough to be sure they were roosters. When I was sure that 2 more were roosters, I penned them up in the rooster pen so they could get used to each other. After several days of this I turned them loose to see if they could integrate. One did & one did not. I ended up having to give the one away that couldn't find its place. So we have 24 roosters in our pasture development field now. They are really improving our pasture. We have some nice green grass growing where they have been, rather than just the wild flowers, sparse native plants & weeds (stickers).
I am feeding the roosters different food from the hens. The roosters get a mix of wheat, milo, corn, oats, Organic wheat, Organic flax seed, kelp, kitchen scraps, and grit. Oh yeah, they also get all the weeds, seeds, bugs & grass they can forage!