My poults are fighting and desperate to fly out of brooder.

[chickensam]

I keep reading you do the same stuff as for chicks but these 2 week old toms are WAY different.
They throw themselves against the side of the pond liner they’re in. And now they fighting/strutting. Can’t tell if that’s normal and safe? Can they hurt each other??

What do I put them in if in a week they out grew a 3 foot long pond liner. Also, they already can fly but can’t in this thing bc we covered it.
I’ve been letting them out for bits each day Inside. Also they are very bonded to us and distraught and loud if we aren’t with them?

All normal??

 

[R2elk]

I keep reading you do the same stuff as for chicks but these 2 week old toms are WAY different.
They throw themselves against the side of the pond liner they’re in. And now they fighting/strutting. Can’t tell if that’s normal and safe? Can they hurt each other??

What do I put them in if in a week they out grew a 3 foot long pond liner. Also, they already can fly but can’t in this thing bc we covered it.
I’ve been letting them out for bits each day Inside. Also they are very bonded to us and distraught and loud if we aren’t with them?

All normal??

It sounds like they already need more space than you are providing. The throwing themselves against the walls can be an indicator that they are too hot.

Just because they are strutting does not guarantee that they are toms. The fighting is a pecking order and too small of a container issue.