They look really mean don't they? Roosters protect their hens and their territory from strangers. In this case, the rooster with the yellow feathers is not usually walking around the chicken yard. The rooster on the right wants to protect his area and his hens.
It is best to have one rooster for every 10 hens but in my world, I have too many roosters. If the birds all grow up together and live together, they can usually get along but there will still be some small fights. The rooster is naturally the leader of his flock (a group of roosters and hens) and within that flock, there will be a pecking order. If there are two or more roosters, they will have fights to decide who is the boss. They don't really want to hurt each other- just to be the boss- so usually one rooster will back down and let the other rooster claim to be the leader. Then they will get along with each other.
The hens will do the same thing but they don't usually fight. Sometimes I will see a higher ranking hen chase another hen away from food.
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