Posted by BC Breeder on 10/23/2006, 9:11 am, in reply to "Roosters ranging together" Just make sure the newcomers to the rooster pen are getting access to the food and water. I have lost the odd ameraucana in the rooster pen due to it being too timid to seek out food and water.
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I've found araucana roos to be very civilized when living together. I even often have multiple roos in a breeding pen. Won't work with our other breeds, but it works with the araucanas. Often the roos grow to live together as a family unit and if a trouble maker ends up in their pen, they will set to driving the trouble maker out by attacking in mass and relentlessly. Once a rooster pen is established, the easiest way to add more roos is to introduce several at night. Adding a single roos to a pen full of roos could become quite cruel.
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