rooster fight

I have a bachelor pad for 2 roosters. They were chicks together. One is a frizzle EE & the other a blue Orpington. They have been in their pad for a few months now and as of yesterday are now fighting. Combs and wattles have nicks with dried blood. They are about 7 months old. Is the...

(scroll to bottom if you dont want to read) So, I was with my mom and sister in our backyard taking care of our horse's hoof while my dad mowed the tall grass. All of our chickens were out running around and keeping from the mower.. (We have three coops and more than one rooster in each coop...

Hi everyone, my two Orpington roosters suddenly started to fight last week. When I got home after work there were feathers everywhere and they were still going at it! I separated them and my favourite- the lemon cuckoo just stood in the field not moving. The blue seemed fine other than minor...

This year, I decided to hatch some Bielefelders and d'Uccles for fun/breeding/maybe showing. COVID stopped the showing, but I've still got the birds. Well, with hatching comes extra cockerels. Didn't have an extreme excess, so I read about bachelor flocks and decided to try it. 2 d'Uccles and 3...

So I got two new roosters that have grown up together and according to my friend have always gotten along... last night was their second night here... Pan literally crowed and cackled Lucifer out of the roost... because I don't want Lucifer eaten I placed him back in but on the far side of the...

There are currently five bachelors living in my chicken coop. My coop is partitioned into two sections. The hens are living in the one half with a lucky dude, and the five bachelors are living in the other half awaiting re-homing. Every weekend I set them all up with food and water since...

Two of my young (8-9) month old roosters had a doozy of a fight yesterday. I found the one just sitting covered in blood. I isolated him to tend to his wounds and he is a lot livelier today. He is eating and drinking. But,his one eye is not opening. I tried to gently clean the area but,I didn't...