1 to many rooster - Slaughter or keep?

[cassandrapettersson]

Okay so,
I have 10 chickens as of now, I'll be picking up 2 more this friday, that would be 12 hens and 2 roosters.
I know it's 10 hens per rooster, but is there something else I could do but to slaughter one of the roosters!?
They fight, *A LOT*, we've seperated the 2 with their own hens (Currently 5 hens 1 rooster in each coop).
If we do end up getting 20 chickens, would it even stop them from fighting? What do we do? None of us in the family want to slaughter the roosters because we picked one of them as our main rooster, and the 2nd one was a suprise rooster that we're very attatched to...

Rooster 1: Polish
Rooster 2: Brahma mix (Possibly hedemora cross)

 

[fluffycrow]

How old are they? If they aren't harming the hens, it sounds to me like they're trying to establish dominance between them

 

[cassandrapettersson]

How old are they? If they aren't harming the hens, it sounds to me like they're trying to establish dominance between them

The polish one was hatched in june, the other one was hatched in july
They've not been harming the hens, only eachother. They cannot be with eachother without attacking, they never stop

 

[fluffycrow]

The polish one was hatched in june, the other one was hatched in july
They've not been harming the hens, only eachother. They cannot be with eachother without attacking, they never stop

How long have you cept them together without separating?

 

[cassandrapettersson]

How long have you cept them together without separating?

Since november, seperated them 2 weeks ago because we came home to one of the roosters looking absoloutely torn, he had white stuff leaking out of his eyes and dry blood all over his comb, he was away from the rest of the flock

 

[fluffycrow]

Since november, seperated them 2 weeks ago because we came home to one of the roosters looking absoloutely torn, he had white stuff leaking out of his eyes and dry blood all over his comb, he was away from the rest of the flock

Probably a pecking order fight, since it matches the season and the time they'd start having more hormones

 

[MysteryChicken]

Weird, I've kept 2-3 roosters to 11 hens without issue, many times. If I did have problems it was rare though.

But not every method of keeping multiple roosters to less hens, or multiple roosters to several hens works out fine.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I always let my boys duke it out, & establish a winner/loser. But if it goes to far, I intervene.

 

[cassandrapettersson]

Probably a pecking order fight, since it matches the season and the time they'd start having more hormones

should i just let them fight till they're done?

 

[fluffycrow]

should i just let them fight till they're done?

Since the younger one was hatched in July, that would make them around 6 months old, which is usually the time they'd start establishing territory and looking to mate. IMO they're establishing pecking order