How Do I Catch My Roo?

[Chickensfan]

Sounds to me like Pine is acting like a normal alpha rooster. You may need to think about separating them - maybe making two flocks that don't mingle, making a bachelor pad, or finding one of them a new home so Palmer can live in peace.

Chickens don't 'hate'. That's pretty much a human trait. As bobbi- j says he's just being a normal dominant rooster. It's all about assuring that his DNA gets to carry on.

thank you guys!

Often times one rooster is enough (or even too mcuh) for a backyard flock, unless you truly have a fair size flock, of say more than 25 two or more roosters are going to cause more problems than solutions.

If you leave palmer in this situation, he will probably die. Roosters often times do not share hens well or at all. Sometimes a father/son relationship will work, and less often rooster chicks raised together will sometimes be alright together, sometimes for life, sometimes for a while, sometimes not at all.

Adding a full grown rooster to a flock with an established rooster is asking for fights, sometimes fights till death. This is survival of the fittest, the strongest rooster's chicks are reproduced. Chicken society is very territorial, is often not pretty unless carefully managed.

Mrs K

thank you too! i really want a bachelor coop for Pine and some others, but when he free ranges, he will see the other flock. i just don't feel right NOT letting him free-range...the polands i have integrated took a liking to palm, (who has been with pine his whole life so far,) and showed him their best hiding spots. now he makes sure they are always alright. i am pretty sure i might have some poland babies! (as Palmer is a poland, and the ladies are too...)
here are some pics of the ladies....



















their names are Passion, Mapleheart, and Cupcake.
here are some pics of Palmer....











man i love Palmer.