7 week old fighting roosters

[texgardengal]

So, should I just take all the littles to the other coop/yard. They have a roost there and nesting boxes for them to hide/nest in. I was just afraid to let them in with the beg chickens so soon, like I mentioned the mom has only been away for 4 days. Will she still help them get used to the new coop; show them around. Stop fights?

 

[triplepurpose]

From about 5-7 weeks they are establishing their pecking order, but to do that much damage seems unlikely. Here is a little contraption that folds away for storage, but it is how I feed chicks or new chickens to the flock. It can be flipped over with plastic poultry netting for babies, then the small bars when they are old, and later the wider bars so only the little ones get inside at night to sleep and it's where they eat. Of course there is netting over the top to keep out unwanted visitors.

That is an awesome contraption! Makes great sense...

 

[Eggcessive]

No, it's too late, and with injuries they will be pecked to death. I would clean up any wounds, spray BluKote on them unless any are deep and need antibiotic ointment first. Then introduce them gradually with a fenced off area in the back of the coop for a week. They need to know that is their home and place to sleep now. Then make an opening or two in the fencing so they can go out and retreat back there for safety. Mom is finished with them, and may attack them also.

 

[enola]

What breed are they?

 

[texgardengal]

is it possible they are just, rather aggressively, establishing who will be the dominant rooster and once they work it out, they will be OK?? Or should I just separate them now.
I will make a little yard in the back of the LF coop and let them adjust slowly, however, should I include the two fighting brothers in with them? or keep them apart. I will wait for the wounds to heal befor I move them....

 

[texgardengal]

My fear of leaving them with the larger flock was...the fist hatch, the momma hen abandoned them too early, she went up on the roost when she should have been sitting on them....One froze trying to sit with her on the roost, the rooster let the other under his wing, that is what saved the hen I have now that is 6 months old. So, this time, I made her stay in the broody coop until they had all feathered out. The first chance she got she ran back over to her large flock and never looked back. So, in my having a broody yard, i may have made more problems for myself but I was trying to solve the problems I had in the first hatch.

 

[texgardengal]

They are all splash Marans