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It seems to help. One of my best roosters was raised only by older hens.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/a-viewpoint-on-handling-roosters-how-to-deal-with-aggression.74690/ I wrote this a while ago. It’s just one viewpoint, so take it with a grain of salt, but it details some of my theory around causes of aggression, preventing it, etc.

It depends. In my experience, raising cockerels with same-age pullets CAN make it more difficult to have a decent relationship with them as they don’t learn things from their older flock members like they would in a normal social structure. Plus, children have no idea how to interact with...