Help. Roosters not getting along!

[h3nnyp3nny!]

Does anybody know how to house roosters? I ask because one of our mille/fleur boys keeps getting beat up by the hens or his brother? Thank you for any info.

 

[ronott1]

Hi!

Did you just move them together? There is usually a pecking order to work out when they first meet each other

 

[h3nnyp3nny!]

No. We have one old English roo in a separate coop and the mille/fleur boys are brothers so they have been living with each other from last year on up until last week when one of them got beat up by some one.

 

[ronott1]

No. We have one old English roo in a separate coop and the mille/fleur boys are brothers so they have been living with each other from last year on up until last week when one of them got beat up by some one.

Sometimes that happens with cock birds that are raised together. If the fighting gets too bad, you will have to separate them

 

[h3nnyp3nny!]

Ok. Thanks! We think that it could have been his brother the second time and the roo who got beat up has been living away from him now.

 

[h3nnyp3nny!]

Do you think it would be a good idea to give him his own little flock?

 

[Silver Sebright]

Yeah I agree with him or her. Even if the roosters are brothers they will fight to see who is more dominant and for whose gonna be the alpha male. I used to have two rooster brothers that would fight and the big rooster would pull out his brothers tail feathers to prove he's the dominant.

 

[Silver Sebright]

Do you think it would be a good idea to give him his own little flock?

Yes this would be a great idea. If you want him to breed put him in a small pen with another hen and they should start trying to breed with each other.

 

[h3nnyp3nny!]

Ok. And the is the one still living with the hens is actually smaller than his brother.

 

[h3nnyp3nny!]

Thank you! They are both the sweetest little roo s when they are not beating each other up and I would hate to give him away.