Take a look at Mark's post below and then tell me what you think.  So far, I agree with Mark that we should eat the aggressive rooster --- when he tore the inch in diameter gash out of the back of our lone hen's head a few months ago, I just about whacked him then and there.  But then we'd be roosterless! 

So, time for a poll!

What should we do with our roosters?
	Eat them both. (But then we wouldn't be able to hatch our own chicks.)
	Eat the aggressive rooster and keep the young one. (But I've got my doubts about the utility of white cochins for tractor life, so his offspring would be substandard.)
	Eat the young rooster and make the aggressive rooster his own coop so that we can put him in with the hens when we need him to fertilize some eggs and otherwise keep him separate. (But it seems wasteful to feed a rooster who's mean and does nothing.)
	Something Else.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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