Reply #1: Truthfully - roosters will not peck each other to death unless

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they are confined. Usually the confrontation will be over in seconds. It consists of some strutting and raised hackles, then maybe two or three jumps at each other. Then one rooster backs down. Sometimes hens will do something similar while setting the pecking order. It's kind of neat to see. In 20 some years of raising chickens, I've only seen one rooster get really beaten up, and he was mean to the hens, so I think the other roosters decided he had it coming!