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I call it the apocalypse method.
\"rooster boxes\".
I\'ve been leaving two cocks per coop of 8 - 12 or so hens. 1 cock rules the roost, while the other spends most of the time out of the way on the roost.With some matings I rotate cocks in and out of breeding coops and sometimes keep extra LF cocks in a coop/pen together (bantam cocks in another coop). The pecking order has to get reestablished each time one is taken out and one is added. The neat part is they may get bloodied up, but they learn to back down rather than fight to the end. You can try to level the playing field some by taking out the \"alpha\" cock for a day when a new one comes in the coop. There are several ways to help make the transitions a bit smoother.