my silkie roosters are fighting??

[silly silkies]

guys my silkie roosters are fighting i have no idea what to do!! my white one, snowball has blood on his head from my other chicken melvine. they have been together since they have been little. i put a pen up in the coop to seperate them so meliven is in a tiny pen for the night. but its rude making him stay in a pen all night. HELP!!!

 

[drumstick diva]

I'm sorry, it is not rude to make one stay in a pen overnight. Rude is much better than allowing them to kill each other - which is not uncommon among roosters kept together. Without knowing more - if they seriously battle you need to keep them separately all the time or rehome one of them. Each rooster can handle 10 hens, if you have 20 hens, you could split them up into two separate flocks.

Do you have any hens at all? Males raised together alone do well till their hormones kick in, and then it's each roo for himself.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Hi

Glad you could join us here! Drumstick left you some good advice on rehoming one of them if their battles continue. Some roosters do live together quite harmoniously in flocks but I'm afraid some just don't. It all depends on the individual birds, how your set up is, ie how much room do they have? How many hens do you have?

Good luck with your birds in the future and I hope you can find a solution.
Enjoy your time here on BYC

 

[Pork Pie]

Hello and welcome to BYC. Great advice above, so I'll just say hi.

Best wishes
CT

 

[N F C]

Thanks for joining us, hope the rooster issue works out soon!

 

[silly silkies]

hey i dont have any hens but i have 2 ducks a girl and a boy kept with the roosters the boy donald keeps the roosters from fighting and dresses up the wounds! they are silkies (the roosters) and the roosters are supposed to be good together thanks for ideas!!

 

[RodNTN]

I am sorry about your roosters! Here is some info I hope will help.

Here is some info I read once-

"5 Rules for keeping multiple roosters in your flock:

1. Have plenty of hens for each rooster
If you only have a flock of five or seven birds, you don’t want two (or more!) of them to be roosters. Generally—and especially when you want to keep multiple roosters—there should be 10 or 12 hens for each male in your flock. . .
2. Have plenty of space in your run. With multiple roosters you will need more than the bare minimum of space. You’ll want to double or even triple the minimum space per bird for your flock. . .
3. If you have neither plenty of hens nor plenty of space, you can keep multiple roosters together by having NO hens. This is an arrangement you might have, for example, if you keep a flock of roosters for exhibition (rather than having a flock of hens for the purpose of laying). With no hens to compete for, multiple roosters often live together in relative peace. . .
4. Raise them together in your flock. Roosters who are raised together establish a pecking order between them as they are growing up. Because they have already established that order, there is less incentive to fight when they are older and more likely to hurt one another by sparring.
5. Some roosters are too aggressive to get along with other roosters, no matter how ideal the conditions are. There are some breeds that tend to produce very aggressive roosters that are prone to fighting amongst one another,. . ."

I really hope this helps!

 

[silly silkies]

thanks everyone for giving me great ideas!! i went down to the coop today and every thing is well. no blood nothing they were standing next to each other. i think my roosters go through stages when they go nuts and kick each others butts!!

but i think the ducks have helped with the fighting (exspecially the drake)

 

[CuzChickens]

Hello there, and welcome to the wonderful world of Backyard Chickens! I hope you will make yourself at home here and enjoy it as much as I have!

 

[QueenMisha]

Welcome to BYC! It's great to have you.