2 roosters same coop

[cray4en]

well, it happened. i have not finished my third house and it snowed. My 2 roosters are having to share space and they got into a fight. Blackeye (my daughter named him) was brought into the house cleaned, fed, and placed into a pet taxi with feed and water. It messed up his eyes, shut closed but now open and fine, comb, head.

Q: When can I put him back in the pen?

He is doing fine now but I can not finish the coop till the snow melts (maybe next week). I don't want to put him in the coop with the young ones (two to four months old) or should I see if he is better in there house? He is 10 months old. I can not leave him in my house till the weather clears up however long that takes.

Black Ameraucana Rooster

 

[NancyinAlaska]

I've got 4 roo's toghether and when I brought a new one in it took a few days, I just left them alone and it all worked out.
Good Luck

 

[M To The Maxx]

You probably won't be able to put him back in. You have a dominat rooster now of that flock. If you try to put him back in he will have more injuries or be killed. I would keep him in the taxi till the coop is finished but let him free range under your supervision.

 

[Luvs chickens]

I have 5 roos together and no fighting. but, they have been together since chicks.

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

about 2 weeks ago i introduced 2 young cockerels into my mixed flock. my current boy didn't like them to begin but they learned their place quickly and i have very few issues. usually the more dominant of the new boys tries to mate but gets shoved off by my dominant boy or one of the big brahma girls. it really depends on your roosters.

if you can't keep him in the house for very long i would suggest to take a large pet carrier out to the coop to keep him in temporarily. when you want to give him some time with the girls in your flock take him out and put the other rooster in as a time out. it would help that other rooster to get used to him as well and you might be able to re-introduce both to the flock and work together with no more issues.

 

[cray4en]

I am not sure why all the sudden they don't like each other. They have also been together since I hatched them. The only difference is that when I got the new fowls I divided the coop/houses. I originally had two houses with a common run. One house is 8x6 the other is 8x12 with run 16x24 but they shared the 8x6. I fenced off the area between the pens for the new group and was sectioning off another area to divide the rosters to document who breed who. It never occurred to me that they would fight each other over the smaller space since everyone stayed full time in the smaller house.

Thank you all for your replies.

cray