- Jul 9, 2014
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So this is my first post. Early this year my wife saw chickens at tractor supply. She thought they were cure so we picked up 4 RIR chicks. Later that day she said she wanted a duck so I picked up one as well. It was poorly thought out as my brooder was my bath tub and I knew nothing of chickens. I bought a cheap pre fab coop and we learned from this website. Fast forward a few months. Our birds are great. They come when we call them and give are starting to lay. Our cheap coop was not good enough so I gathered a lot of repurposed wood and built a new coop/run (Ill post a write up later). Because of the new coops size we decided to get two new birds. We got two 4 month old Barred Rocks. We put them in the old coop to keep them seperated for a month from our orginal flock. The first night home I had the great idea to let them free range. Long story short it took several hours to catch them. They have now been in their coop for a week. They are still very scared of us (our RIR love us). Any advice on how to get them to trust us. When can we let them out? I was thinking to try this weekend right before dark. Is there any general advice on training a 4 month old bird. The chicks were easy. Loved us from jump street. These guys are terrified of us.
