Two of our White rock roosters recently began to fight. This morning one of them was bleeding and didn't want to get up. My question is do I go ahead and butcher him or is there a chance of him recovering?
I would not just go ahead and butcher him!
First get him cleaned up and see what his damages are!
Chickens have a very good recovery rate. If he can't recover on his own nature will take its course. You don't have enough hens around to keep both of your males busy.
Animal love of all kinds....
Well he died yesterday afternoon. So I decided it was time to process a few. We had two White Rock roosters and the rest were RIR. The WR were that ones fighting so I decided it was time. I now have two RIR roosters and 14 hens. A sad day but I hope things will stabalize for a while.