Quote: He's only young and a gentle male will often remain in the lower social strata for longer. When he realizes he's a rooster and starts finding food for the hens and exhibiting other typical rooster behavior, they'll also realize he's a rooster (if they haven't already) and will embrace his inclusion into the general flock structure, so to speak. Until he starts acting like a rooster they will treat him like a juvenile. He'll be at the bottom of the pecking order because he's not yet in full flush hormonally, as his pink crest and wattles attest. Although... Diet can prevent proper reddening as would otherwise be normal.
About them getting along: it depends on the roosters. Which really means in the long term your chances of having multiple roosters depends on you and how you choose to handle violent birds. If you react to aggressive males who can't coexist by removing the bullied one, not the bully, you can forget about having multiple roosters. If you react to aggressive males by removing the bully, you can have just about as many as you want or need. If they've ever gotten along in the past there's a good chance they can do so again. It's even more likely since the young one is still in the last stages of his juvenile phase, wherein a natural social order will assert itself and he stands a good chance of peacefully assuming a subordinate place to the dominant rooster. If his mentality allows, of course. If it doesn't, it may help to know that a positive correlation between excess aggression and low fertility has been proven in many livestock and wild animals.
I grow many cockerels annually for feeding my family, and free range them for total health, so peaceful mentalities are crucial to me. Since I don't breed any chicken, male or female, who harms other chickens, I can grow out my generations of males and females free ranging with the adult flock. The gender ratio goes up to 50:50 without any problems. Sometimes I've had more cockerels and roosters than pullets and hens.
All a rooster really needs in terms of female company is a minimum of one hen. Even with more females around he will almost always have that one favorite. If he's a truly good rooster he won't push his attentions on any hen who is rejecting him, and you won't have 'overmated' hens. This sort of natural instinct takes a while to breed back into them if it's been bred out though, so leeway is needed.
If he's violent by nature he will never tolerate any other rooster even if you give him 100 hens, and chances are that his nasty nature would also show in him pecking and bullying hens, and he would likely 'overmate' his favorite hen. 'Overmating' does not occur with good roosters and kelp in the diet. I believe it is either a problem caused by weak feather growth due to some dietary deficiency and/or a cruel rooster who has no care for his mate and is therefore abusive.
Intolerant behaviors tend to breed true. So do peaceful ones. My roosters fight without using their spurs or doing any damage and quickly, calmly resolve any disputes of hierarchy. It's not impossible to have a nonviolent flock. Best wishes.
About them getting along: it depends on the roosters. Which really means in the long term your chances of having multiple roosters depends on you and how you choose to handle violent birds. If you react to aggressive males who can't coexist by removing the bullied one, not the bully, you can forget about having multiple roosters. If you react to aggressive males by removing the bully, you can have just about as many as you want or need. If they've ever gotten along in the past there's a good chance they can do so again. It's even more likely since the young one is still in the last stages of his juvenile phase, wherein a natural social order will assert itself and he stands a good chance of peacefully assuming a subordinate place to the dominant rooster. If his mentality allows, of course. If it doesn't, it may help to know that a positive correlation between excess aggression and low fertility has been proven in many livestock and wild animals.
I grow many cockerels annually for feeding my family, and free range them for total health, so peaceful mentalities are crucial to me. Since I don't breed any chicken, male or female, who harms other chickens, I can grow out my generations of males and females free ranging with the adult flock. The gender ratio goes up to 50:50 without any problems. Sometimes I've had more cockerels and roosters than pullets and hens.
All a rooster really needs in terms of female company is a minimum of one hen. Even with more females around he will almost always have that one favorite. If he's a truly good rooster he won't push his attentions on any hen who is rejecting him, and you won't have 'overmated' hens. This sort of natural instinct takes a while to breed back into them if it's been bred out though, so leeway is needed.
If he's violent by nature he will never tolerate any other rooster even if you give him 100 hens, and chances are that his nasty nature would also show in him pecking and bullying hens, and he would likely 'overmate' his favorite hen. 'Overmating' does not occur with good roosters and kelp in the diet. I believe it is either a problem caused by weak feather growth due to some dietary deficiency and/or a cruel rooster who has no care for his mate and is therefore abusive.
Intolerant behaviors tend to breed true. So do peaceful ones. My roosters fight without using their spurs or doing any damage and quickly, calmly resolve any disputes of hierarchy. It's not impossible to have a nonviolent flock. Best wishes.
