Roosters fighting through fence.

[alleyboballey]

Hey guys!
So my husband and I have a flock of 6 chickens 1 rooster, all about 16 weeks old. They just discovered that our backyard neighbor has many chickens and 2 roosters. Well, our chickens could care less but our rooster, Rooberto, can't forget about it. Everyday we let them out to free range, he takes off towards the chain link fence!

Well, today he was back there and I was monitoring them, even took a video, and our neighbors rooster bite our roosters wattle! I immediately chase ours away and notice that he's bleeding.

So my question is, what do I do to treat his wattle? It's not a huge wound but it's bleeding and I don't want the hens to pick at it.

Also, what should I do about the roosters in the other yard? Should I get a wood fence or is our rooster going to understand that he's not the most dominant?

 

[sourland]

Use a styptic pencil or flour to stop the bleeding. Your rooster is not going to give up the fence fighting. It's a rooster's nature to defend his flock/territory from interlopers so that his DNA can be passed on. A solid barrier of some sort along the chain link will stop the fighting.