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What I do to get roosters to live together that are quarrelsome is- I take them both to an unfamiliar environment (garage another part of the yard etc. I confine them together in a pen or large crate or something for about a week. With no territory that belongs to any one rooster and no hens there is less reason to fight. Still watch to make sure the silkie rooster isn't getting badly beat up though they still might posture to each other. After a week of living peaceably like this return them to the hens and they should be fine. The bad fights and injuries happen when they first meet and don't know each other. This almost always works for me.
What I do to get roosters to live together that are quarrelsome is- I take them both to an unfamiliar environment (garage another part of the yard etc. I confine them together in a pen or large crate or something for about a week. With no territory that belongs to any one rooster and no hens there is less reason to fight. Still watch to make sure the silkie rooster isn't getting badly beat up though they still might posture to each other. After a week of living peaceably like this return them to the hens and they should be fine. The bad fights and injuries happen when they first meet and don't know each other. This almost always works for me.
By the way, what do silkie eat? I read somewhere (can't remember where), that they can not eat chicken pellets because their beaks are too small and that they should be feed on chick starter/grower. I feed my chickens a mix of grain and pellets, bread and lots of veggies scraps. Would that be all right. I'm getting so excited
