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Is it okay to mix a bantam rooster with two rhode island red hens in the same coop?
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∙ 12y ago
Yes, but you need to introduce them at night to reduce fighting. If you mix them during daylight hours you will have injured to dead chickens to tend to. At least an hour after sun down is when you want to mix them. However there will still be some hen pecking for a few weeks but if they have a lot of room to run around in then you shouldn't have any injuries.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 15y agoYes. In most cases if the hen will allow the rooster to mount her. Bantam hens are not a fragile as they appear. The are full grown hens and can take the weight of a standard Rhode Island Red rooster for the few seconds it take to rooster to perform his duties.
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∙ 12y agoYes, it is perfectly fine to keep bantam roosters with RIR hens. The rooster, although small, may still be able to breed the larger hens.
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What is the habitat of Rhode Island Red?
The Rhode Island Red can be found in a chicken coop.
Where do Rhode Island Red hens live?
Perhaps in a chicken coop or a hen house but in any case they are not limited to the State of Rhode Island or to the United States.
Where do rooster live on a farm?
If he's a good rooster to the ladies, he gets to live with them in the coop or run. But, a bad rooster lives in the stew pot.
What is a hens house called?
coop
Where do chicken rooster live?
Roosters usually sleep in a coop or barn just like a hen.
Will an existing rooster in a coop kill a new rooster?
There will be a fight for dominance. Injuries can cause the rest of the flock to continue the damage the alpha rooster inflicts, be it the new one or the established male. One will be boss.
Will a Banty rooster adjust to being a Banty in a large hen coop?
Your rooster will adjust just fine, and may even be somewhat happy. Any offspring he may sire might be smaller than had the sire been a full size rooster. He will probably rule the roost as Banty's can be quite ruling.
What are the names of coop and condo buildings on Roosevelt Island?
A local realtor can answer your question.
What is the habitat of a rooster?
The rooster, or male Gallus Domesticus is found on farms and in backyard coops all over the globe. In the wild, cocks will roost in trees at night an forage for food by day. In the barnyard, their favorite habitat is with the hens.
Do you separate the bantam chicks after they are born from the rest of the chickens?
YES if you don't the other chickens will kill them so heres what you do if you have a coop. keep the babies in a separate cage but inside the coop that will let the other chickens get used to them do that for a couple days then let the chicks out and see if they like each other if they don't put them back in the cage.
How do you change the time of chicken cock-a-doodle-doing?
The rooster crowed at midnight.....a popular beginning to those early mystery books. Well, a rooster can and does crow at midnight. They crow when they see light. They can see light much better than humans which is why if you hear a rooster crowing at 5 am and it is still dark, he sees the sun rising. If he has a window in his coop he will crow when a car passes by and the headlights shine in his coop. To change the time your bird crows you must make sure all light is blocked from the interior of his roosting area.
Will your chickens return to the same place to sleep?
Yes, it only takes a few days for the chickens to know where they live. The rooster will call the hens home before dark if you have one, but they almost always find their way to the coop even without a rooster calling them home. When new hens are introduced to the flock they sometimes try to roost outside the coop the first night until they are used to the pecking order (who sleeps where).
