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Ocala RIR: If you are raising them all in the coop, but separated the integration should go easy. Yes you could mix the batches together. Once the youngest are of a size they can take a little of the pecking while the new pecking order is being established. Or you could integrate them to the...

If they are going to a pen/coop by themselves, then they can go out now with their heat source. Or you can wait till they are six weeks or fully feathered and then put them out without the heat. Generally most wait till the young ones are twelve weeks before putting them with the rest of the...

Winchuck: You can do either it won't hurt them either way. When I am going to introduce an new batch of pullets to the coop, I will put the grow-out tractor in the same pasture area as as the coop and hope they will go to the large coop. They rarely do and I have to force the move myself.

I assume now you meant that the hens will harass him to death. It is really unlikely that they will. If he has space to run even a mature hen teaching a young rooster manners is rarely hurt. But yes integration works best when they are nearer in size.

Nice setup soniaartist. One of the joys of chickens is that if you want or need, the cheaper ways work. The chickens don't care. Bantams and full size can get along. With the bantams being younger I would wait til the bantams are closer to maturity till i would try to put them in the same...

Winter is when they usually allow a low member of the pecking order to close ranks, for the added warmth. Again it doesn't always happen. Sometimes they just don't meld. If you get a new hen and quarantine, the added time will mean that she maybe a new bird by herself. You could get around...

Yes sometimes it s a slow process. If they aren't drawling blood I would count it a success. It will take some time for total acceptance. A this time getting another may just mean that the new one takes as long to integrate and gives no guarantee that the Speckled Sussex becomes any tighter...

clintonwood: Yes there is a learning curve to keeping chickens, as you are finding out. Yes stress can delay the first egg or not, they are individuals. Same with the period before they begin to lay its what the individual pullet brings to the flock. What was the question about the roosters...