Thanks everyone. We've quarantined the new bird just to be sure. Mrs. K- Yes I've read the same and seems to me (fingers crossed) it should go well. We will plan to put the introduction cage in with our old girl in her coop for the beginning and then once they are ready to be out together we...
We recently lost one of our older girls which left her sister all alone. So we decided to get two new pullets, unfortunately three days in one of them died (or got killed), it could be that something got into the new coop. but we are not sure.
So now we have our older girl and this new pullet...
I'm needing some advice. We currently have a 2 year old hen (free range) and will be getting 2 pullets tomorrow (around 14-15 weeks) . Once we introduce everyone and they start to feed together, should we go with growers pellets for everyone or what is best? We've only ever had adult hens and...