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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: manian on November 01, 2011, 09:03:22 am

Title: fighting ............
Post by: manian on November 01, 2011, 09:03:22 am

Morning all,
our stags (from the same hatch) have started to fight.........
we have had to seperate them but they are still wanting to kill each other rather than eat etc..........
tensions are running high..........
any advice, don't want to cull until christmas really
Mx

Title: Re: fighting ............
Post by: Tilly on November 01, 2011, 09:53:37 am

Hi    :wave: Marian
I have had this before, with mine - it was because of the fact that I had still got females in the group and the boys were growing UP!!
I had to separate the boys from the girls and that solved the problem for me :turkey: :turkey:
                                                                                                           :turkey: :turkey: :turkey: :turkey: :turkey:-The males get really aggressive with each other, leading up to  full scale fighting -I had to literally brake up the brawl to stop mine them killing each other!!


Tilly

Title: Re: fighting ............
Post by: sam.t on November 01, 2011, 01:15:41 pm

we also had this and as said above remove the hens or they will fight to the death
sam :chook: :turkey: