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Oh yeah chickens are totally racist! I have 3 different breeds and they absolutely segregate by breed (even within the same age group and hatch-mates). And even within the same breed, they show a preference for others of their own color. I guess the saying "birds of a feather flock together"...

I agree that there is such a thing as too few chickens. By their very nature chickens are very combative and prone to conflict, even within their own flock, even with siblings, parents and children, etc. - more so than other social animals. Chickens are just jerks. So flock dynamics are more...

2 is not a good number, for many reasons and this is one of them. If they happen to not get along for some reason, they have no other friends to diffuse the tension and hang out with, no higher ranking queen/king to stop fights and resolve disputes. Adding more chickens now would only stress...