Rooster questions.

[tuesdaylove]

In my flock of five bantams, two are roosters. They are about three and a half months old and were raised together. Will they inevitably start fighting someday? I need to know because if there's no chance of them getting along, then I'll have to re-home one of them. I can't get more hens to even it out and I don't have the money/resources right now to build another pen to separate them (and I'd have to build a pen as I live very close a highway and it's too dangerous for them to free-range). Both roosters are already crowing and I have seen them fly and screech at each other as though they are beginning to fight.

 

[gamebirdsonly]

If you have hens then they will fight and don't hens they still might fight but usually the fighting is worse if it's over the hens and territory. Or they good get along just fine if they both don't think their top roo.

 

[tuesdaylove]

The pen that they're in is a bit small for two roos, I think. I have a friend who might be able to take a roo, but now I want to ask, is it okay to have one rooster by himself? Does he NEED the company of hens or is it okay if he lives by himself?

 

[shannonpdp]

im sorry but i just have no clue what your responce was it made no scence????????????

 

[speckledhen]

I had four D'Anver roosters with about the same number of hens for quite some time. They got along most of the time, though they did establish the pecking order, and had the occasional skirmish when one overstepped his bounds. They were hatched and raised together. You won't know unless you just wait and see-overmating of the hens from the roosters competing with each other would be my concern with so few hens.

I wouldn't put a rooster by himself unless he was injured, though I'm sure some do. Probably best to rehome one or add some females so the few you have are not overmated.