poplargirl's thread on her d'uccles prompted this question but I didn't want to hijack it. We are building a rooster house for all our young cockerels that are growing out and I would like to include my bantam cockerels to live long term with my standard cockerels. Ages of all of them right now are anywhere from 2 months to 6 months. The bantams have grown up with some of the standard cockerels and I'm getting ready to put them in a new grow out pen where they will share a yard (divided by a wire fence) with the other young cockerels they didn't grow up with, with the plan to remove the divider in 4 weeks. So my question is......
After a month of them being able to observe each other between the wire fence will the bantam cockerels be easily accepted by the standard cockerels they didn't grow up with?
And given the long integration, will my bantam cockerels be safe and unharmed living with standard cockerels long term, with the plan of taking them out for breeding once a year and putting them back in all together?
After a month of them being able to observe each other between the wire fence will the bantam cockerels be easily accepted by the standard cockerels they didn't grow up with?
And given the long integration, will my bantam cockerels be safe and unharmed living with standard cockerels long term, with the plan of taking them out for breeding once a year and putting them back in all together?