2 roosters keep going at it....fight till the death?

[Teila]

Hi all

I found this thread to be very interesting reading. We are not allowed to have roosters here and that is OK by me, I do not have a breeding program and my girls are much loved pets who I do not want to see being harassed by a rooster.

I just wanted to add that I agree with EggSighted4Life in that while I have read many times that a rooster will protect his girls which is, of course, a good thing; I have a couple of hens, one in particular who watches over the flock just as well as I believe any rooster would.

She raises the alarm and calls in her flock mates, takes on cats and has badly beaten up a couple of Crows and she is a bantam

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Bantam!

 

[Teila]

Bantam!

LOL .. yep, she is a bantam! Small in stature, large in bravado

She also runs in and breaks up any squabbles in the flock .. if it was not for the fact that she lays eggs and does not crow, I would swear she was a rooster.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

So cool, guess I've seen my top hen do the same. Funny how they have to keep the peace sometimes.