Free range roosters fighting

Thanks for all the input. After asking the question, and reading the responses, I may never have a peaceful flock. Right after I responded my beta RIR and youngest Dominique roos fought. Landed the Dominique in the vets office with a torn ligment. Nursing him back to health in the garage, separate from the rest. Not sure what or how to re-introduce him. He lost his hens to the RIRs. May have to buy more hens to keep all the boys happy.

I have noticed that the hens without roosters (2 independent girls, silkie and game hen) wander more and are less cautious. I like my roos because they keep the hens in the yard and out of harm's way. Now if the roos only would get along, I would be less nervous about free ranging them when I am not watching them. Very time consuming.
 
My two roos got along until I built a new run and coop and seperated them into new spaces. Now they even try to fight with the wire between them. I started doing seperate free range days after my standard BO roo kept trying to do the deed with the banty girls. I was afraid he would hurt them. One day I let them all back out together. I then spent the day getting between the roosters and breaking up fights. I have an acre for them range around on. You'd think they'd just go to seperate corners and range away. No deal. They had to be in the same space and wanted to brawl over it. Boys!

All of that to say, is there anyway you can rotate their free ranging days? Do you have a run you could keep some in?
 
CityGirlintheCountry - free range seprate is right. The only way. Some out in the morning and others out in the afternoon. Mine fight through the cage wire, too, hens and roos. At times, cutting ther mouths. Crazy. Still love-em so can't complain. Just want to be humane about it all and not perpetuate a problem. Thanks for the advice!
 
Okay... I have to ask. How in the world do you get the first half to go back in the run at midday?
I tried that very unsuccessfully this past summer. Visualize me tempting them in with treats, chasing them in with a broom, herding them up with my car (which they are scared of)... nada. I finally had to just go to work with a couple of them left out. I was a nervous wreck! Not to mention exhausted and all nasty sweaty after chasing 17 chickens around in 100 deg zillion percent humidity August weather. It was not a happy experience. Now I don't let them out unless I will be home all day. Brats.
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hahahaha,,, all i have to do is grab my fish net,, it has a handle that makes a weird sound,, ALL the birds can hear it the minute i touch it,, and they all RUN to the coop,,, hahahaha,,,, ive spent HOURS chasing birds just so they know that no matter how long it takes,, i WILL catch them
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so now,, they give up fast and run to hide in the coop
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Yeah... after driving circles around the yard herding the brats with the toyota I just gave up. I figured I had reached the end of craziness with that and that the neighbors would be calling the mental home on me. The banty roo was just determined to NOT go back in the run.
&^$%!& roosters!
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CityGirlintheCountry - My husband herds them in with his horse's lunge whip. He wriggles it like a snake and they high tail it for their coop. He is much better at it than I am. I can not get all of them together. At night they have no troubles going in. The smaller pullets I simple pick up and place in the coop. They don't seem to mind.
 
Hi, I just moved my small flock to a farmette. I only have 1.6 acres but I was hoping that that would be big enough to please all my chickens. I have two BO roos and one silver laced winedot roo. The hens are one barredrock, one black Arstalop, and four green eggs layers Amercona type mutts, The poor things had a hard transition. I started out in town with a backyard run and 11 birds. I gave two roos away right away as soon as they begain to crow. This was hard to do but I knew that I would have to do it before I ordered the chicks. So I was down to 9 birds. I was unable to keep my home in town. After decideing that It would be best for me to move all the chickens and myself to the country. I discovered that two more birds were roos. I had my been thinking about this posibility for a while but thaught I can take them all with me now. I took alot longer to close on the new house and then had been subspected and the roos begain to crow. The neghbors complained and I really did not want to be a pest. I moved the two roos to the basement. The closing was to only be a few days away. It got pushed back over a month. The whole time roosters in the basement ratleing the floor boards doing whar roosters do. They where each in there own large cage. I new it wasn't good enough for them but I knew they would hae a better life just as soon as I could get them to their new home. In the meantime I started hearing rooster crows from uotside. There was yet another roo still with the hens. He remained with them. I tryed to keep the outdoor run as dark as posible to keep him from crowing it only kinda worked alittle. So now I am down to only 6 hens. There was a total of 5 roos the first two were the ones I gave away.
The closeing finally came for real this time. I moved all of my birds at the same time. Most of them road shotgun on the front passenger seat of my oild Buick. Two of the rooster were each put into there own box and road on the back seat. I put all of the hens in a nice new run with the roo who had been with them the longest, one of two BO roos that I stil have. He is nice to te hens and I thik he s the right pick to sta with the girls. I then let the othe BO roo roost in his own out building giving him food a water but letting him be completly free range. The same goes for the thrid and my most favorite rooster the silver laced winedott. They were all happy living that way for a few weeks each with there own territory.
The two free range roos have started to seek each other out. Today was the second time I seperated them. It was a real cockfight with all the blood and everything. I can't believe people have made a sport out of this. I now have the BO caged. He seems to be the major aggressor and the worst for the wear.
I had wanted to give the free range roos each a small flock of hens this year. If they had there own group and were spaced apart could it work or do i need to remove one from the farm. I really want a free range flock. I had thought I could keep them all.

I have seen it been done but I don't know how they did it.
 

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