Rooster fights

[Mazy1561]

I have a 2 year old rooster and 1 that will be a year old in august. The younger one is starting to pick on older one bad. I have 7 hens. Should I get rid of 1 rooster to stop the fighting? They were fine all summer and now just staring to fight. The younger one won’t leave other one alone and he stays in corner with head facing the wall. Any ideas what to do?

 

[sourland]

Get rid of one as soon as is possible - before the younger kills the older.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I have a 2 year old rooster and 1 that will be a year old in august. The younger one is starting to pick on older one bad. I have 7 hens. Should I get rid of 1 rooster to stop the fighting? They were fine all summer and now just staring to fight. The younger one won’t leave other one alone and he stays in corner with head facing the wall. Any ideas what to do?

He's trying to win his place as Alpha. Had the same situation back in the spring of 2020.

Plus they need more hens.

I was able to stop the fighting by relocating the offender.

 

[DobieLover]

He's trying to win his place as Alpha. Had the same situation back in the spring of 2020.

Plus they need more hens.

I was able to stop the fighting by relocating the offender.

Ditto.
All peaceful until Junior decided he wanted to take over the flock. I, however, had plenty of hens to go around and 1/3 acre of space. Sometimes, the boys just will not tolerate another male in "their" flock and will fight constantly until someone submits (to a life of constantly being run off or hiding) or dies.
Chose the male you want for your flock and rehome the other.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Ditto.
All peaceful until Junior decided he wanted to take over the flock. I, however, had plenty of hens to go around and 1/3 acre of space. Sometimes, the boys just will not tolerate another male in "their" flock and will fight constantly until someone submits (to a life of constantly being run off or hiding) or dies.
Chose the male you want for your flock and rehome the other.

I have several flocks with an uneven ratio of hens to roosters with very little issue.

One reason is because my grandpa won't let me set up any more coops until after he passes. It's frustrating when you need to have more space.

This situation happened in my project Orpington flock, or standard coop. The offender was the brother of my boy Dino. He learnt his lesson after I moved him into a flock with boys that were older then him.

 

[nao57]

Clucken-Cain and Clucken-Abel all over again.

 

[nao57]

Does creating two smaller flocks with the two roosters separate sometimes work?

(Maybe some people might be worried about losing the genetics of losing 1 rooster.)

 

[Ebony Rose]

Sometimes you can split a flock, but it's an awful lot of work and expense, especially when taking into consideration that to rehome (or eat) one of the male birds does the job as, or more, effectively and provides for a more comfortable living situation for the remaining birds, without having their space cut in half to accommodate a separate flock.

Only you can answer the question, is one bird worth the extra time and trouble?

If you're keeping the males for fertile eggs, (you want offspring from both males), you can accomplish this easily by incubating eggs, and then introducing the CHICKS to your existing flock. You'll likely end up with the same decision of which birds to cull from your flock in the future with this method, but you will have the genetics of both birds to make your selection from.

Keeping you and your feathered family in my prayers.