can 4 males who get along great be added to another flock?

[Kel60]

so my 4 boys(same clutch, no hens) are getting to the point where they need to be evicted from my room. the question is do the get evicted to the coup or the freezer.

they get along great with each other. no one chases or bullies. they sleep all cuddled together they bounce and flap around and just seem to all be buddies. their 7 weeks old. i would have figured if they were going to get agressive with each other they would have by now. but what happens when i add hens to the equation? i have five hens and one male in the outdoor pen. Romeo, the outdoor male, is a push over and is getting bullied by his girls. i kinda doubt hes going to really be a problem. but would these four turn on each others once theres hens are in the equation?

 

[cmobley]

When the hens come in its gonna be a battle royal. They all get along because there's nothing to fight over. Put a hen in there and see what happens. I'd have em grilled wrapped in bacon stuffed with jalapeños and cream cheese.

 

[shrimpsilkies]

Pick your favorite, eat the rest.

 

[Kk Augy]

Had the same problem and I totally agree with the rest

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

Yeah...multiple cockerels generally just get along when there are no females around. Once you put them out there, things can get nasty real quick.

 

[FloorCandy]

Yup agree with the others, once hens are involved it changes everything. Pick one, either one of the new boys or the current one to keep, the rest get a tour of the freezer.

 

[swampfox440]

This is a case where size matters if you are wanting to raise meet birds . I would keep one biggest male and freezer camp the others .

 

[Kel60]

alright, ill be keeping the one new male. hes good and plump, romeo was always a skinny boy. even when i brought him in and he wasn't fighting for food. the male im gonna keep is a very pretty pharaoh whose just a bit pied. also kinda pale on his sides and shoulders, kinda dont want to cull all my goldens, but their smaller and all males. hopefully this male with still have golden chicks as thats what his dad was.

 

[Kk Augy]

so my 4 boys(same clutch, no hens) are getting to the point where they need to be evicted from my room. the question is do the get evicted to the coup or the freezer.

they get along great with each other. no one chases or bullies. they sleep all cuddled together they bounce and flap around and just seem to all be buddies. their 7 weeks old. i would have figured if they were going to get agressive with each other they would have by now. but what happens when i add hens to the equation? i have five hens and one male in the outdoor pen. Romeo, the outdoor male, is a push over and is getting bullied by his girls. i kinda doubt hes going to really be a problem. but would these four turn on each others once theres hens are in the equation?

It's the hormones that make it happen
Hope all keeping well with ur new member of the flock

 

[FloorCandy]

alright, ill be keeping the one new male. hes good and plump, romeo was always a skinny boy. even when i brought him in and he wasn't fighting for food. the male im gonna keep is a very pretty pharaoh whose just a bit pied. also kinda pale on his sides and shoulders, kinda dont want to cull all my goldens, but their smaller and all males. hopefully this male with still have golden chicks as thats what his dad was.

I’m not sure what you mean by golden, usually when I see someone say golden they are referring to Italian or manchurian, which are speckled birds with a yellowy background. But I recently saw someone identify an Egyptian or scarlet bird as golden.

If you are referring to golden Italian or manchurian, the gene is incompletely dominant. Since he is pharaoh, he does not have Italian, but if you pair him with an Italian hen, she can pass it on. There’s a lot of detail in the Italian gene, which I won’t get into.

If the color you mean is roux (scarlet or Egyptian), then he can carry the gene unseen, and if his father was roux colored he will be a carrier of one copy. Roux is recessive in males, but in females, inheriting one copy makes them that color, so it acts like a dominant gene.

If you have a roux male, you can create sex link chicks that can be gendered at hatch. Mating a roux male to a hen that is not roux (most people will pair with pharaoh or Tibetan hens, but there are a number of combos) will result in all roux offspring being female and all non roux being male.