Young roosters

[Lazy Farmer]

you might witness small fights of which are considered 'challenging.' Challenging is something that almost all cockerels will do

I am "Lord of the Roos".. hehe.
My Freezer Flock only challenges each other for very brief moments. All are similar ages/batches.. One group of 20ish roam and feed in harmony. With the occasional pecking challenge..
As long as they are not caged and the loser of the challenge has plenty of room to back off. Multi roos need a multitude of space.
BUT having more than 1 Rooster with the ladies means the ladies will be double tagged and tore up more.

 

[The Angry Hen]

I am "Lord of the Roos".. hehe.
My Freezer Flock only challenges each other for very brief moments. All are similar ages/batches.. One group of 20ish roam and feed in harmony. With the occasional pecking challenge..
As long as they are not caged and the loser of the challenge has plenty of room to back off. Multi roos need a multitude of space.
BUT having more than 1 Rooster with the ladies means the ladies will be double tagged and tore up more.
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Couldn't agree more. I have seen it from personal experience as well and it is something that definitely takes place more often than not.

 

[The Angry Hen]

can you tell what breed the brown one is?

Looks like an ISA brown. But as far gender goes, still too young to tell. Nice birds!

 

[Star and eclipsa]

Looks like an ISA brown. But as far gender goes, still too young to tell. Nice birds!

Both of them crow during the day. Im 99.99999999% sure that they are both roosters.

 

[Star and eclipsa]

How old do chickens have to be before you can start showing them at county fairs and stuff?

 

[blasterssen]

I've got 3 Speckled Sussex and 3 Barred Rock roosters and they get on very well together. They were raised together, along with 30 ladies. They fought for a short while when they were really young (3-4mo) but now they cooperate well.

 

[gimmie birdies]

They fight to establish a pecking order, if one is already established, hopefully there will not be a show down, but I have seen young rooster play fight, and test each other it is pretty short lived though.

 

[Chelseyb123]

I have four roosters one of which is the father. All raised together an get along fine. The young roos are about 7months old now. They have little fights from time to time but nothing to bad other than pecking order. Only real problem i have is that they like to get my hens out of my backyard an i constantly have to chase them back in when they are caught.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Since you don't have any hens and they were raised together, I highly doubt there will be any problems. They will occasionally fight to remind each other who is dominant. As long as you have a large enough pen and make sure the fights don't get too severe, I think you'll be fine.

This is an article I wrote about rooster-only flocks that you might want to read: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/rooster-flocks.72998/

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

can you tell what breed the brown one is?

Both of them crow during the day. Im 99.99999999% sure that they are both roosters.

Those really do not look like roosters to me, but since they're crowing at this age they most likely are. As for the brown one's breed, he looks like a production red.