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    Introducing chicks to coop with my older chickens

    Sounds like a plan! I am working toward the same goal, yet my new hens are a year younger than my current ones. It will prove to be interesting to say the least. I gave a treat of raisins yesterday to them. I am hoping that treats will encourage them to all get along, but I'm not holding my breath.
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    Anti social hen.

    I don't understand it either, I have a black Americana that has just recently started staying off to herself. I opened up the fence for the chickens to go into a neighboring fenced area. She was still in their yard, when I put her into the 'covered' section where their "house" is at she went...
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    Introducing chicks to coop with my older chickens

    ** A few weeks** (with the wire)
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    Introducing chicks to coop with my older chickens

    Chickens establish a 'pecking order' in doing so they usually make sure the youngest or smallest is 'last'! if you can possibly put some wire between the 2 age groups where they can still see each other and get used to each other a weeks like that they should be able to coexist. Yet the pecking...
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    Hello From Orange Grove!

    I'm new to BYC but have been a farm girl all my life. We had chickens a few years ago but they were food for the predators; hawks, owls, coons, skunks, dogs & themselves but not before they produced alot of eggs for us. I have decided to give chickens a try again but I am going to try different...
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