Reintroducing rooster

[Grammieshens]

Please help. I have to 'brother' roosters who are 11 months old. I had to crate rest one for 4 weeks do to a lame leg. I have been trying to reintroduce him to the group, but he and the other rooster keep fighting. First it was the well rooster going after the lame, now it is the other way around. I keep breaking up the fights and separating them. Is there any hope?
I am heartbroken at the thought of getting rid of one. The lame one hobbles but gets around and fights as strongly as the well one. Keep the strong one, but I doubt any one will take a lame rooster. Get rid of the strong one, but will my lame one be able to protect the girls? Anyone have insight?

 

[Chickenaddition]

hello, Sorry to hear an issue between your roosters. I believe they are trying to establish dominance. How many chickens do you have? Perhaps you could separate the flock into two smaller flocks and divide the coop/run? Sorry need to know what size flock, what size coop, what size run. This would all help in tackling the situation.

 

[aart]

Please help. I have to 'brother' roosters who are 11 months old. I had to crate rest one for 4 weeks do to a lame leg. I have been trying to reintroduce him to the group, but he and the other rooster keep fighting. First it was the well rooster going after the lame, now it is the other way around. I keep breaking up the fights and separating them. Is there any hope?
I am heartbroken at the thought of getting rid of one. The lame one hobbles but gets around and fights as strongly as the well one. Keep the strong one, but I doubt any one will take a lame rooster. Get rid of the strong one, but will my lame one be able to protect the girls? Anyone have insight?

Hard part of chickeenering....keeping multiple males does not often work out, even if one is not disabled. My advice is to get rid of one of the males, I would eat him.

Good questions from @Chickenaddition.

 

[Mrs. K]

Listen to your birds and solve for peace in the flock. They are telling you this is not going to be nice, that you don't have an adequate set up for multiple roosters. Wishing they would all get a long, just won't work.

Sometimes, you will get a pair that will work, sometimes they have a fight and work it out and it is over, but not often. However, when they continue to fight... well you did not get a compatible pair, one of them needs to go.

Mrs K

 

[Shadrach]

I have never managed to keep brother roosters together without them fighting.
They will free range more or less together but when it comes to roost time one gets driven out by the other.
@Chickenaddition has the best solution if you want to kep them both and that is to house them separately.
For some reason father and son works, father and grandson works, I've even had father and great grandson work.
Yes, a rooster with a limp can provide the same 'protection'. It's a mistake to beleive any rooster is going to fight and defeat a serious predator but I've had two 'disabled' roosters here in the past and they've been just as good except in one respect which may not bother you. When they've mated with the hens they have trouble 'getting on target' so the number of fertile eggs dropped noticeably.