dreamofwinter
Songster
For those successfully keeping a bachelor flock - how tolerant do you find you need to be of fighting?
My three boys are going through a phase where they want to (and often have) beat each other bloody. Just comb and wattle wounds, but we all know how those bleed! I don't see a defined bully in the group, though it's worth noting that it's mainly the two Brahmas sparring and the bantam Cochin without a mark on him.
These are cockerels born in spring 2023. They have a small sleeping coop inside an enclosed/covered 8x16 hoop run and also about 150 square feet outside when the weather isn't raging. To make matters more complicated I would like to add a fourth cockerel (or swap him in and take one of the others out) - of course this may not be possible.
My three boys are going through a phase where they want to (and often have) beat each other bloody. Just comb and wattle wounds, but we all know how those bleed! I don't see a defined bully in the group, though it's worth noting that it's mainly the two Brahmas sparring and the bantam Cochin without a mark on him.
These are cockerels born in spring 2023. They have a small sleeping coop inside an enclosed/covered 8x16 hoop run and also about 150 square feet outside when the weather isn't raging. To make matters more complicated I would like to add a fourth cockerel (or swap him in and take one of the others out) - of course this may not be possible.