I currently have 4 roo Lf in with about 5 lf hens. I got my first pair at about 11 months and hatched their eggs and some others. I put the chicks in with them as soon as it was warm enough. My old roo ignored them. The hen chased them a bit. The chicks are now about 10 months. So far, everyone is still getting along, though all the Roos are breeding. Now, my old roo met my rir roo and I had to step in, and got a little gash in my leg through my pants. Their pens abutt, so they all know each other.
I took one of my lf hens that looks like she might be a cross out of the lf pen and tried to add a salmon favorelle hen, but the 3 cockrels chased her into the coop and they were all screaming bloody murder so I took her out. I don’t know if they were trying to breed her or kill her, but I wasn’t waiting to find out.
One of the cockrels is bigger than my old roo and likes to fly up to the 4 foot high roost and flap his wings and crow at me. I make sure to push him off that perch before bending down to fill their water. He’s never tried anything, but why give him the opportunity.
P.s lf are pretty birds, terrible voices. I rate the Roos between a pack a day and three packs a day depending on how rough they sound.
I have about 21 ig eggs in the incubator (from 2 sources) and a few under a broody right now.
eBay eggs don’t have the best hatch rate, s we’ll see. Between incubator and broody I have about another 20 lf eggs cooking.
Honestly, when you look at the lf, while they are pretty birds, the body shape is closer to a domestic breed than a true game cock. My lf are bulkier than the true fighting breeds (likely as a result of the general outlawing of cock fighting and resulting lack of utility for the lean fighter shape). They have no problem flying short distances and jumping to high roosts though. They don’t lay as consistently as domestic breeds, but they are reasonably productive and worth having. I really like mine.
Will let you know about the ig.
% gentle giants. We have never had any aggression problems with them. We also have Indio gigantes, same thing. They are very gentle and sweet. We have many different varieties of birds including seramas, silkies, breese ect... they all get along.
