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    Integrating ducks to existing hens

    Update: I gave the ducks as long as I could until they were just too crowded in their segregated pen. Let everyone loose together in the 50x50 chicken yard with veggies scattered all around for treat time. Sat with my hose pipe on jet setting watching for any severe bullying. To my surprise the...
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    Integrating ducks to existing hens

    I’ve give them a few more weeks & will try again this weekend to let them range together. I have to do something Bc ducks have outgrown the pen currently in. Thank you for the tips!!
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    Integrating ducks to existing hens

    I’m hoping to add 3 ducklings to my flock of existing 6 hens. All 3 are feathered & have spent the last week in a small protected run inside the chicken run so they have been seeing each other. I attempted to let the ducks out to roam yesterday & my hens immediately jumped on & started pecking...
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    Integrating a Rescue Bantam to my existing flock-ADVICE??

    Just wanted to update & thank you both again! Little girl has done tremendous! Today was the first time I left her alone confined to the coop/run without the option of free range escape. I monitored for a bit & then came inside & checked back every 15 mins or so. By evening she was sharing...
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    Integrating a Rescue Bantam to my existing flock-ADVICE??

    Little Girl has started to lose some of her tenacity. She still comes out to the yard where the others are, she still waddles into their coop & run, but she easily shies away during treat time if a few of the others even look at her. I have 4 hens that scare her & will still make a grab for her...
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    Integrating a Rescue Bantam to my existing flock-ADVICE??

    Thanks so much again-I always get good advice & encouragement here!! I'll post an update on how it goes
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    Integrating a Rescue Bantam to my existing flock-ADVICE??

    This is her giving me love after her "play date" today...you can see why I'm attached??!!
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    Integrating a Rescue Bantam to my existing flock-ADVICE??

    This is rescue day at the hospital
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    Integrating a Rescue Bantam to my existing flock-ADVICE??

    Thank-you both! She does seem to have that "here I am deal with it" chickenality . I'm too much of a baby to walk off & leave her lol My concern is consistency-with my work I'm often gone before daylight & not home until well after dark. I'm also out of the country for 2 weeks end of June...
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    Integrating a Rescue Bantam to my existing flock-ADVICE??

    I know majority say it's impossible, but I'm clinging to the few success stories out there! I rescued a mature bantam Cochin from my hospital's parking lot about 6 weeks ago. No one on my local Backyard chicken sites claimed her & left to her own she wouldnt have lived with all the stray/wild...
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    Bring eggs through airport security?

    I just cleared security with two dozen of my eggs (not fertile). There was extra bag screen but no issues-just a few smiling TSA agents.
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    What kind is this little girl??

    Definitely a bantam tho-she's a tiny darling.
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    What kind is this little girl??

    I was thinking Cochin also! I've never introduced a new bird but I've read ever article possible in the last hour on how to do so safely. She's so well nourished I'm sure she's someone's backyard pet so if I can't find her owner I really want to take good care of her.
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    What kind is this little girl??

    I found this cutie outside the parking garage at my work this morning! I've posted her picture on my local Backyard Chicken FB page hoping someone claims her but in the meantime I have an extra coop & run I can keep her safe. She appears to be a bantam but I'm not sure. Can anyone help identify...
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    Is it possible to add ONE baby chick???

    That's what my gut is telling me so thanks for the confirmation! I think I AM brooding so I'm just anxious to have little cute chicks all again :-) I appreciate the advice & will follow. It's taken a while & my girls have finally found a rhythm amongst themselves & all is well. I was outside...
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