Integrating new pullets and a cockerel with my other cockerel?

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Hi! I’m looking for advice on integrating mainly just a three month rooster with a 6-8 month rooster, Kia, my current rooster, has never shown signs of being agressive and is a silkie so small but I don’t know if his instincts will make him attack the three-month-old Easter egger rooster I’m getting next week, that rooster probably won’t be adopted with any hens, maybe one, but there are two more younger pullets I’ll be bringing in, probably one a few weeks old, I haven’t gone to pick them yet.

All my chickens free range so I’ve never had flock fighting issues other then normal pecking order “don’t eat me food or get close to me” pecking, never any bleeding, scabbing, skin irradiations or depressed hens, my old rooster was a jerk but my knew one is totally sweet other then chasing my hens down, but all roosters do that.

The picture with the red arrows are the hen and rooster I might get, my brother asked me if I wanted a rooster and his friend just guessed which ones are roos but that yellow one is definitely a hen, the red one is the EE rooster I’m taking then the grey one is my rooster

 

[sourland]

Your present cockerel may very well fight the new cockerel. Have a 'Plan B' in mind just in case.

 

[3KillerBs]

It's called "cockfighting" for a reason.

It's unlikely to work out well.

*Possible*, but unlikely.

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

It's called "cockfighting" for a reason.

It's unlikely to work out well.

*Possible*, but unlikely.

Even when they are young? I mean Kia is almost fully matured but they’re both still young, I know many people who i think raised raised roosters together so they have about three or four roosters for a flock of eight hens, the fourth rooster was a newly hatched too

 

[Aunt Angus]

Even when they are young? I mean Kia is almost fully matured but they’re both still young, I know many people who i think raised raised roosters together so they have about three or four roosters for a flock of eight hens, the fourth rooster was a newly hatched too

Even when they are young. My two got along fine until one day, they didn't. I broke it up quickly because I knew it would just get worse. I was very lucky and was able to rehome my younger boy with a gal who just adores him. He is living his best rooster life now with his own ladies. My rooster is much happier. My flock is not stressed out anymore. And I am no longer worried about finding one or both of them dead when I come home.

 

[sourland]

Roosters raised together in a flock or cockerels raised in a flock can frequently coexist quite well given enough space and resources. A rooster/cockerel integrated into an established flock is an entirely different situation.

 

[3KillerBs]

Even when they are young? I mean Kia is almost fully matured but they’re both still young, I know many people who i think raised raised roosters together so they have about three or four roosters for a flock of eight hens, the fourth rooster was a newly hatched too

If the second boy were still a young chick it *might* work -- given enough space, etc.

But he's a teenager about to hit the hormonal phase.

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

If the second boy were still a young chick it *might* work -- given enough space, etc.

But he's a teenager about to hit the hormonal phase.

Really? Normal roos hit it that soon? I got used to my silkie roo… which as mush people know silkies take much longer to mature

 

[Aunt Angus]

Really? Normal roos hit it that soon? I got used to my silkie roo… which as mush people know silkies take much longer to mature

Oh, yes. It varies with the individual bird, but hormones start really kicking in around 4 months on most birds, regardless of breed. Has he started crowing yet? I have a friend whose Silkie cockerel started crowing at 4 weeks.

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Even when they are young. My two got along fine until one day, they didn't. I broke it up quickly because I knew it would just get worse. I was very lucky and was able to rehome my younger boy with a gal who just adores him. He is living his best rooster life now with his own ladies. My rooster is much happier. My flock is not stressed out anymore. And I am no longer worried about finding one or both of them dead when I come home.

I’m glad he found a good home like that… I think I’ll try this at least for awhile but if they fight I’ll rehome to Easter egger (obviously not my silkie) only issue I have with the silkie is he might be too small