Game roosters

[sdm111]

Nope

They can't stay together they have been bred for 1000s of years to fight to the death. Its a territorial thing it can't be loved and hugged out of them. And if they don't fight to the death and quit they should be culled cause they are not game.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Ahhh ok! So it literally just depends on the situation and whatever happens. But if it’s that much of a risk I’ll pass.

Good choice. I could show you pictures of the damage they can cause to other birds in the blink of an eye. Unlatched pen, pen flips in a storm, bird gets loose etc all results in blinded, bloody, mangled or dead birds and they definitely aren’t kept together. The few of us that raise gamefowl worry and take every precaution to keep them 100% separate. Putting them together is the exact opposite of what you will want. But….for learning purposes once full grown try it out but don’t go anywhere. You’ll learn within 10 seconds what we’re saying.

 

[Kandypeeps05]

Good choice. I could show you pictures of the damage they can cause to other birds in the blink of an eye. Unlatched pen, pen flips in a storm, bird gets loose etc all results in blinded, bloody, mangled or dead birds and they definitely aren’t kept together. The few of us that raise gamefowl worry and take every precaution to keep them 100% separate. Putting them together is the exact opposite of what you will want. But….for learning purposes once full grown try it out but don’t go anywhere. You’ll learn within 10 seconds what we’re saying.

I Dont even wanna as if the hens are any less aggro

 

[roosterhavoc]

I Dont even wanna as if the hens are any less aggro

That depends on the line of gamefowl and the individual hen. They are very much aggressive but not usually as aggressive as the males.

 

[McChooky]

The breed in question are Games. A breed that has a tendency to not get along well with multiple males

I haven't read anything online that says games can't be kept with other chickens but my cousin swears game roosters don't just fight other roosters they'll fight hens too.

 

[IvysAnimals]

No they cannot be kept together under any circumstances unless like already stated you want dead birds.

Ok, thank you for helping me understand.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I haven't read anything online that says games can't be kept with other chickens but my cousin swears game roosters don't just fight other roosters they'll fight hens too.

Once upon a time there was no internet and people still learned.

 

[sdm111]

Once upon a time there was no internet and people still learned.

When they learned before the internet it was right too

 

[638858]

Call 25/20 !!! Lay 20 !!! shoot redbird !!

 

[NatJ]

Can multiple game roosters live peacefully in a flock? I know this is a breed that was created to kill each other but it’s it really the geneti make up or the socializa

It is mostly the genetics, not the socialization.
So for the kind of games that were bred to kill each other, you should not expect to be able to keep them together in one flock, no matter how you raise them.

However, the breeds of chickens commonly sold by hatcheries are very different.
For them, it is usually possible to keep multiple males with a large group of hens, and have all the chickens stay alive and reasonably healthy. If you see recommendations about "1 rooster for 10 hens," that is advice about how many roosters to have when there are hundreds of hens. Hatcheries want every egg to be fertile, but they do not want to buy feed for any extra roosters. So they have different ratios for different breeds, with 1:10 being around the middle of the range.

The wild red junglefowl that were ancestors of chickens were different yet. The males would fight if you tried to keep them in a pen together, but with large amounts of space they would spread out and live peacefully enough. There may have been some fights to the death, but obviously enough birds survived to keep the species alive. They had some sense of when to run, and how far to chase the loser before leaving him alone. Domestic chickens were bread away from that in both directions-- the ones that will kill each other (gamefowl) and the ones that can live together (most breeds sold by big hatcheries.)

For the breeds where roosters "can" live together, there will still be some roosters that just will not tolerate each other. So it is not safe to assume that ALL of them can live together. But in general, a large percent of them can.