Roos always mate the same hen back to back

[angc11]

Hi all! I have a rooster behavior question that’s kind of hard to even explain. I’m asking mostly out of curiosity. I have 17 hens and 2 roosters that are all 5 months old, I hatched and raised them all together. The hens are starting to lay and are finally letting the roosters mate with them instead of screaming and running away. One of my roos has always been the “alpha” since he was quite young and leads the flock around and does most of the mating. I’ve always considered my other roo a junior roo because he reached sexual maturity much later than alpha roo and mostly acted like another hen until maybe a month ago. Alpha would chase him around every day and always knock him off hens when he tried to mate with them. Well as junior roo has been coming into sexual maturity, he’s started to challenge alpha roo more and more. Alpha roo would knock him off a hen and dance at him and junior would dance back instead of running away. Then junior roo started knocking alpha roo off hens while he was mating and alpha would be angry and they’d dance at each other. Ok so this is all normal and I certainly just assumed this would happen since junior roo is behind the curve and starting to come into his own now and challenge the alpha. I expected it would happen more and more and they’d eventually start actually fighting or something.

Here’s where I think it gets weird: recently, junior roo knocked alpha roo off a hen and alpha didn’t seem to mind. junior then mated with the same hen that alpha just mated with and alpha didn’t care. This behavior has now started happening regularly to the point where if one rooster mates with a hen, the other will run over and watch and then mount the same hen back to back like they’ve just agreed to share the same hens now???? It happens every time I see one rooster mate, the other runs over and mates the very same hen. I don’t understand. And now they hang out together peacefully when all the hens go into the coop in the evening. Alpha used to chase junior into the coop but now it’s like they’re allies working together lol.

Has anyone seen this type of “coexistence” i guess is the way to describe it with roosters before? Where they start off having a clear and what i consider to be a very typical power struggle and then all the sudden become equals who share everything, including back to back hen mounting lol????????? It’s not really a problem per say, i’m sure the hens don’t love it but they’re not getting injured or missing feathers or anything. I mostly just want to understand because this behavior seems to defy everything i’ve ever read about roosters. My only uneducated guess so far is that my junior rooster is larger than my alpha so that maybe my alpha feels like he’d lose in a fight so doesn’t even bother. I know roosters typically avoid fighting if they can help it so maybe that sort of makes sense.

Anyway thanks for reading and would love to hear any thoughts!!!

 

[nuthatched]

I'd get rid of one or both for your hens sake.
They're trying to 'overwrite' each other.

 

[Mixed Flawk]

I had that issue with my 2 fairly young bantam cochin roosters. When they tore the back up on my 2 year old banty hen, it was over, I sent both off to a no kill sactuary. I really liked them too. We had roosters to spare though. They both were great with humans, just not to the hens. They would even do it to my 2 year old rooster when he was with his ladies.