Can I keep a Barred Rock rooster and a Silkie Rooster together?

[_-Captain BRM-_]

They would grow up together and have 15 or 16 hens. I know that roosters fight but silkies are generally nicer. Thank you!

 

[Brooks_]

Probably not. You can until you can't type thing.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Since the silkie’s a bantam, it would have a much higher chance of working out than two large fowl roosters. Though you should always have a plan B.

 

[Ridgerunner]

You can try but no one can give you any guarantees as to what will happen. Real life doesn't work that way with living animals and their behaviors.

They might fight to the death. They may work together to take care of the flock. Them being raised together might help. It might not. The more room they have the better, but even if they totally free range and sleep separately they may fight to the death. You just don't know.

If you decide to try it have a plan ready so you can separate them immediately. The need may be very quick. I think you need something like that anyway in case you need to isolate any chicken. You never know when a hen can get injured or something requiring isolation from the flock.

 

[neo71665]

Generally 2 roos can't be in a flock with hens. They don't know they are different breeds all they are worried about if passing their genes on.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Since the silkie’s a bantam, it would have a much higher chance of working out than two large fowl roosters. Though you should always have a plan B.

The reason why I say this is because I’ve had multiple bantam flocks with more than one rooster. I’ve kept ratios such as three roosters to four hens without issues. I’ve also seen many examples on this forum of bantam flocks with multiple roosters that get along well. However, large fowl roosters are different, so I’m not sure how it will work with one bantam and one large fowl.

 

[RooStar Chicken Gang]

Only got one Rooster in the flock. But have a friend who has had multiple roosters in his flock, Rhode island and Leghorn roosters and mixed breed roosters, he once had four roosters to a flock of about 20 hens, those roosters did not grow up together they were added over time to the flock.

His roosters got taken by foxes now so his back down to just one, but has a few baby chicks atm so some may be roos. But have heard when you have multiple roosters there becomes a dominant Rooster who mates with the hens while the other roosters do not they just become extra protectors.