Can different species of birds live in a coop without matting & reproducing?

[boyss7]

Can different species of birds live in a coop without matting & reproducing? (chickens, turkeys,guineas, ducks) Thank you very much

 

[BirdHead]

I'm not very knowledgeable on this, but I know turkeys and chickens won't try, they know the difference it's obvious, but they are larger and if there was a fight to occur you'd have some injured turkeys or dead chickens.

 

[BirdHead]

And ducks and chickens can live together easily, I've seen and know too many people who cross their flocks together like that. And by cross I don't mean breed

 

[MagpieDucks]

Drakes (male ducks) will try and mate and can kill chickens.

 

[BirdHead]

Drakes (male ducks) will try and mate and can kill chickens.

Interesting, how does a duck kill a chicken? Assuming by what you said, kill the hen? Because a rooster I doubt besides many domestic modern breeds, wouldn't just let a duck kill them.

 

[jvls1942]

they can absolutely live together and they cannot interbreed.
just like a cat and dog cannot interbreed.

you will never see a live turduchicken.. .

 

[BirdHead]

they can absolutely live together and they cannot interbreed.
just like a cat and dog cannot interbreed.

you will never see a live turduchicken.. .

Never know.. Lmao they never said humans would be bionic but we're already there and getting further into it.

 

[lazy gardener]

Interesting, how does a duck kill a chicken? Assuming by what you said, kill the hen? Because a rooster I doubt besides many domestic modern breeds, wouldn't just let a duck kill them.

In a battle, the rooster is likely to come out the looser. Duck reproductive anatomy is very different than that of a chicken. A drake can cause serious internal injury if he breeds a chicken. And often breeding is not about sex, it is about dominance. I would question OP about the housing situation he is envisioning: If it is a very big coop, it would be possible to partition it off into separate housing for the different species. If it is not a large coop, this is a disaster in the making.

 

[BirdHead]

In a battle, the rooster is likely to come out the looser. Duck reproductive anatomy is very different than that of a chicken. A drake can cause serious internal injury if he breeds a chicken. And often breeding is not about sex, it is about dominance. I would question OP about the housing situation he is envisioning: If it is a very big coop, it would be possible to partition it off into separate housing for the different species. If it is not a large coop, this is a disaster in the making.

Baffling, but I still don't see how a drake would beat a rooster especially being of game fowl.

 

[jvls1942]

when housed together in a large coop, different species can get along without incident.
One winter I housed over 100 birds in a single coop. turkeys, guineas, chickens and the geese and muscovy ducks if they chose to go in.

birdhead, in your first post, you said you weren't very knowledgeable about this.
I believe you.