Introducing a new chicken

Hi

I am very new also but had a similar experience and the breeder told me never to introduce one hen on her own to a new group. Its better if you have 2 new ones.

Can you go back to the breeder and get another of the same age?

It is horrible when they peck at the lowest in the pecking order and I find it quite distressing but at least this way with 2 new ones they can buddy up.

My SOLUTION is this:

I take my loaded Smith & Wesson revolver into the chicken area with me. I SHOW the pistol to all the chickens! I tell them that IF I see any of them pecking another, I WILL SHOOT the aggressor!

THIS does not work.

I decided to just let them "sort-it-out" themselves.

It was a good try, however.

not much help,
-Junkmanme-

oh dear! I did think that you would of thought of having more than 3.

Get all the chickens that you want/can afford etc.

Don't limit yourself to only 3!

If the local ordinances say only 3...don't worry about it. 

If you're old (like me), you can claim "Alzheimer's".

If you're young, you can blame the lousy school system for not teaching you how to count correctly.

If you're "middle-aged", you can blame a poor count on your NEW bi-focals!

No Problem!

-Junkmanme-

I'd push it, they might of said 3 because that's just how many you had, like if you had of had 6, then 6 is fine

I'd take them inside in seperate boxes for the day or a few hours. Move the inside of your coop around as much as you can to give a "new coop" distraction then release all three back together.

I had something along the same...got my flock all at 3 days of age, turned out I ended up with 7 roos!!! then they matured and all wanted to mount the hens...my hens were being treated rough, beyond rough. One mounted, and before done, 3 more on a hen.  So I seperated the roos, kept 3 in the tamer ones, and put the others in large wired dog kennels until I could put them in there own run/coop.

it took me 2wks to do that, and I had them all next to each other with only 3" apart from each other...I built one coop/run...got them all in, and THEY TRIED TO KILL EACH OTHER!!! They could no longer be together. I didnt understand this, born together, raised together, and then side by side. It became a male thing I guess. So I put two in that run that could be together and the other two had to say in the dog kennels.  And they couldnt see the hens either.

I ended up having to give 6roos away. and now, they live together in one coop/run!!!! at there new house. I also had 2 porc. d'uccles and I kept them in the main coop/run in a dog kennel for 3 wks...and I could never put them in with the others as they wanted to kill them.

now I have babies going on 1mo. old that Im gonna want to put into the main coop in 3mos ...and I dont  know how it will work...might have to make another coop