- Apr 9, 2011
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My cousin and I live in two houses on the same farm. He got chickens first, and his RSL rooster is about a year old. During the day the roo free-ranges down as far as my yard fence, which is 50" pasture wire with 56" welded livestock panels at points of particularly tasty landscaping (I have beef cattle, and towards the end of July lilacs, daylilies, and raspberries are a treat!). I'm planning on letting my BLRWs free range in the fenced yard while I'm outside in good weather, which we are yet to have, and certainly do not wish to have any damage done to my sweet 5mo boy by the larger and more aggressive RSL or the Blue Duckwing OEGB who I hear tell has beaten the RSL, for that matter (I've never seen the bantam close to my fence line).
I've never seen the RSL roo fly, nor seen him perch more than 18" off the ground; he has never been inside my fence, nor is he particularly aggressive towards me when I encounter him in the field between my yard and my cousin's yard: he has, apparently, "drawn blood from everyone" at my cousin's house (three adults, two teenage boys, and a GSP who was in her own kennal at the time), and fought and been put on his back by the tiny OEGB. I had an opportunity to buy my breeding pair because they were too nonagressive to stay in the main chicken run, and the rooster isn't at all aggressive even in his own chicken tractor.
So: are my fences tall enough to keep a territorial war from breaking out? If not, would running a hot wire at the top do enough to keep the rooster separated?
I've never seen the RSL roo fly, nor seen him perch more than 18" off the ground; he has never been inside my fence, nor is he particularly aggressive towards me when I encounter him in the field between my yard and my cousin's yard: he has, apparently, "drawn blood from everyone" at my cousin's house (three adults, two teenage boys, and a GSP who was in her own kennal at the time), and fought and been put on his back by the tiny OEGB. I had an opportunity to buy my breeding pair because they were too nonagressive to stay in the main chicken run, and the rooster isn't at all aggressive even in his own chicken tractor.
So: are my fences tall enough to keep a territorial war from breaking out? If not, would running a hot wire at the top do enough to keep the rooster separated?
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