[big blue bar]

noticed this year for some strange reason our widows are fighting with each other . mostly the 2 and 3 year olds is this normal ? and will they settle down after they are paired up . had the same last year but only with one cock , but this year there is about 4 to 5 of them . Every time i go into the loft lately there is a new cock covered in blood . any suggestions ?

[dal2]

big blue bar, on 29 December 2011 - 20:26 PM, said:

noticed this year for some strange reason our widows are fighting with each other . mostly the 2 and 3 year olds is this normal ? and will they settle down after they are paired up . had the same last year but only with one cock , but this year there is about 4 to 5 of them . Every time i go into the loft lately there is a new cock covered in blood . any suggestions ?

Mine fight all the time when split frae hens tho bleedin no good! find the dominant yin and shut him up!

[alex young]

A mate of mine used to get this happening,but he never exercised his cocks during the winter and fed heavy(in my opinion).He started to exercise them w/ends and put them on a light feed and they became less aggressive.This may not be your problem,just a thought.atb.

[OLDYELLOW]

elastic band there legs enough so can walk but not spread there legs if can't spread there legs then they can't fight , with this amount of aggression in your loft your probably better just to keep the aggressive ones locked up and feed and water in there box

[just ask me]

big blue bar, on 29 December 2011 - 21:26 PM, said:

noticed this year for some strange reason our widows are fighting with each other . mostly the 2 and 3 year olds is this normal ? and will they settle down after they are paired up . had the same last year but only with one cock , but this year there is about 4 to 5 of them . Every time i go into the loft lately there is a new cock covered in blood . any suggestions ?

for me its quite normal as i quite like aggressive birds usually there 1 or 2 cocks to blame trying to take over a second box i lock the trouble makers up for 2 or 3 days in there own box only letting them out when im in the loft if they are trying then to take over the second box i just carefully catch him by the tail and let the box owner give him a small going over pushing him out of the box some people say remove the trouble makers i would never do that as i find there easily motivated

[demolition man]

alex young, on 30 December 2011 - 09:34 AM, said:

A mate of mine used to get this happening,but he never exercised his cocks during the winter and fed heavy(in my opinion).He started to exercise them w/ends and put them on a light feed and they became less aggressive.This may not be your problem,just a thought.atb.

i think you could be right mate

[just ask me]

i think they know what time of year is coming around raise of hormone levels etc drives them off there head too

[gulkie]

sounds like your birds are to high try some extra barley