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[Rocky64]

Oh and is there any Michiganders here? I was thinking that I could maybe get some games from one of you at a MBGBA, but I won't be able to pay hundreds of dollars

 

[sdm111]

Yeah true, there'd be room to get away from eachother in the hens case, i know this is a dumb question but would it be okay to keep let's say a Rhode Island Red hen with the gamefowl if she's introduced at the same time the gamefowl are in the pen? Or would the game hens still harass and kill her? Yeah my roosters couldn't outrun the sleek and fast game cock, they'd get a few yards and get caught. I'm planning to free range the two flocks alternately, or at least one a week for the games and I was wondering if the game cock would fight through the fence like one would do to another game and get all bloody and stuff, I would think my other roosters would tire and just leave him alone since they don't have the urge to kill like the game( the game would be inside his pen so my other roosters could just leave). Sorry for all these questions but thank you for all your help and information.

honestly I think it would be in the best interest of all to either not get games or go all in. You will need to keep the games separate from layers and one another and if you're not willing to go the extra mile you're not ready hate to sound crude but it is what it is

 

[Rocky64]

honestly I think it would be in the best interest of all to either not get games or go all in. You will need to keep the games separate from layers and one another and if you're not willing to go the extra mile you're not ready hate to sound crude but it is what it is

Yeah that makes full sense, I mean I really want gamefowl and have for ages, but I don't have the room to keep both the rooster and the hens in individual pens, all in one pen I can handle, I already have it set up, but if the rooster and hens gotta be separate I can't do that.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Yeah that makes full sense, I mean I really want gamefowl and have for ages, but I don't have the room to keep both the rooster and the hens in individual pens, all in one pen I can handle, I already have it set up, but if the rooster and hens gotta be separate I can't do that.

Keeping both can be a real pain in the *ss. The other thing is having available pens, drop pens, cages etc.. to separate a bird in an emergency. sick, hurt, etc. As a rule you shouldn't have any loose roosters that could come into contact with the penned stags/cocks either. Hens can be an issue too all depends on the bird.
Either way before you get them set it up properly or you'll be frustrated quickly and the birds will get the short end of the stick.

 

[sdm111]

If they raised together from chicks they'll be ok but you will have problems putting full growns together. The male and female will more than likely have to be introduced after they are sexually mature and the hens won't coexist if penned together at a later than chick age at least that's what happens round here. And if you're gonna have free range whatever than the games pen will have to have a run of plywood 24" or so tall all the way around so they don't fight through the wire

 

[sdm111]

Keeping both can be a real pain in the *ss. The other thing is having available pens, drop pens, cages etc.. to separate a bird in an emergency. sick, hurt, etc. As a rule you shouldn't have any loose roosters that could come into contact with the penned stags/cocks either. Hens can be an issue too all depends on the bird.
Either way before you get them set it up properly or you'll be frustrated quickly and the birds will get the short end of the stick.

x2 on that the birds get a bad rap when usually its the caretaker that didn't put in the time to edumakate ones self

 

[roosterhavoc]

For example I have a pullet in a drop pen in my shed cause she got her head pecked pretty bad. Now I may or may not be able to reintroduce her back into the same pen she came out of. Gotta have a place to put her.
Just one of the little things that happen.

 

[Rocky64]

Keeping both can be a real pain in the *ss. The other thing is having available pens, drop pens, cages etc.. to separate a bird in an emergency. sick, hurt, etc. As a rule you shouldn't have any loose roosters that could come into contact with the penned stags/cocks either. Hens can be an issue too all depends on the bird.
Either way before you get them set it up properly or you'll be frustrated quickly and the birds will get the short end of the stick.

So even if the regular roosters are the ones outside and the game is confined it wouldn't be a good idea? I mean my other roosters are territorial but not overly so and probably won't go near the gamefowl pen much. I would under if it was the other way around and the game cock wouldn't leave the confined regular roosters alone and stay close to it trying to constantly get to it through the fence, but my roosters hardly even fight, and it's more rare for them to fight through the fence. I had my silkies in the pen in the summer in daylight and the big roosters barely ever bothered the silkie rooster inside, but I would never put the silkie with the other roosters outside the pen together. But yeah if you say it's probably not a good idea I get them then I most likely won't because you know a lot more bout them than I do.

 

[sdm111]

First blue egg of the year It's gonna be holding some brownie mix together in a few

 

[roosterhavoc]

So even if the regular roosters are the ones outside and the game is confined it wouldn't be a good idea? I mean my other roosters are territorial but not overly so and probably won't go near the gamefowl pen much. I would under if it was the other way around and the game cock wouldn't leave the confined regular roosters alone and stay close to it trying to constantly get to it through the fence, but my roosters hardly even fight, and it's more rare for them to fight through the fence. I had my silkies in the pen in the summer in daylight and the big roosters barely ever bothered the silkie rooster inside, but I would never put the silkie with the other roosters outside the pen together. But yeah if you say it's probably not a good idea I get them then I most likely won't because you know a lot more bout them than I do.

The gamefowl within the pen will tear themselves to pieces trying to get to the bird on the outside. Not all will do it but the good ones will. They may be just fine 364 days but that one day it's a problem and you have a mangled bird that is useless and taking up your time doctoring him up.
Put it this way. If you can have full grown gamecocks penned and full grown roosters running around close to the pens without a problem your gamefowl are useless.
I had guineas for awhile. After a couple years I only had a breeding pair left. The male was fine then one day he started messing with the penned birds. One of them doesn't have any spurs left. It's not worth the aggrivation.