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Okay hopefully they'll sort it out, thank you for your advice! Really didn't wanna end up losing another chicken lol. But seriously thank you :)

Ah I see, that makes more sense. It just seemed so vicious! Should we let them in together tomorrow or keep them in separate pens for a few days first? I just don't her to get hurt!

That's what we thought, but the frizzle is definitely the youngest and smallest. Hopefully it'll work out soon. Their pen is only very slightly smaller than their last one but they were sharing that with about 4/5 more chickens. Do you think it was the stress of the journey and change of place...

So we're a family fairly new to keeping chickens. We have them as pets but take advantage of the egg laying. We previously had 3 hybrids which we had for 6 months, but last week they were unbelievably (we can only assume) stolen from their coop in our back garden! There is no way for a predator...