Thank you both for your responses. Sounds like I am basically on the right track. Since the older ones free range it will be easy for the two groups to observe one another regularly without the risk of any injury. Then I can allow gradual integration once the chicks are old enough.
I have a...
I have on batch of 7 chickens that are about 4 years old and a new batch of 9 chicks that are 1 week old. We are building a new coop and run area that will be 4 times larger than our original coop. We plan to construct a tunnel between the two areas and continue to use both. We inherited the...
I " inherited" 11 three year old chickens with the purchase of our house a five months ago..So i very new at this. They had always been in a coop/ run. once the weather improved I slowly began letting them roam about in a small section of the yard. About two months ago I noticed one of them...