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Esther.R · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:47 pm Post subject: Cockeral bashing...

Ok after being clever the other day and saying I had never had a problem running a young cockeral and a bantam cockeral with my hens they obviously heard me and the hens have started to bully both of them to the point where I have had to remove the young cockeral, and I think I will have to take the bantam out too.

Now the youngster is a leghorn X so soon he will be plenty big enough to hold his own, do I just put him in with the hens then and let them sort it out once he is full size? And what do I do with him in the meantime? I do want to run a cockeral with them so disposing of him is not an option really as that is why he was kept. Should I just put him in a run beside their run until he is big enough to hold his own and bash them back? (he is 10wks at the moment).

The bantam I am using as a good excuse to get some more bantam hens for

and then he'll have his own run with them (already have a run of pekins, a run of sablepoots now and he is a yokohama so trying for some yokohama girls but might have to be something else as I am trying to stay within the islands this time).

Maria · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:46 am Post subject:

Sorry couldn't help with this one - have things settled down yet?
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Smooth Hound · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 8:24 am Post subject:

if you intend on keeping the bantams seperately. then you may as well take them out and put them seperate now really. there doesnt seem much point in
them going through a tough settling period just to take them out just when they have settled in there order.