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    New Babies & Food/Water Location

    Yesterday, we were greeted with little peeps from underneath a broody hen in our coop. I plan on letting her raise them, integrated with the flock. I'm wondering, however, if I should bring food and water into the nesting box, or if their brood mama, when ready, will take them outside to eat eat...
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    Adding two batches of pullets and one cockerel to a flock

    Now, the little white ones are outside in the starter coop, and we can't get them to put themselves to bed at night. We keep having to pick them up, walk them up the ramp, and shut them inside. The cuckoo marans figured out the drill in two nights. The white rocks don't seem to be getting it.
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    Adding two batches of pullets and one cockerel to a flock

    A week has gone by, and last night, for the first time, all of the adolescents put themselves into the big coop. The little cockerel was the last in. No commotion. The Reds definitely rule the run (for now), but they're not going out of their way to mess with the young ones. Phew! Meanwhile, the...
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    Adding two batches of pullets and one cockerel to a flock

    Everyone made it through the night safe and sound. They all filed out this morning, no commotion, with the fussy red and the teenage cuckoos leading the way.
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    Adding two batches of pullets and one cockerel to a flock

    One more note, on Sunday, we let the hens out to free range and we put the pullets and cockerel in the big coop for about a half hour in order to get familiar with the interior. They rummaged around and seemed to enjoy the adventure. When we opened the door, they figured out how to go down the...
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    Adding two batches of pullets and one cockerel to a flock

    Thanks for your reply. All of the roosts are about 12 inches above the floor of the coop. Right now, the adolescents can jump up onto the roof of their starter coop, which is higher than the roosts in the main coop. I calculated the roost space, and I'm confident that there is enough room for 18...
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    Adding two batches of pullets and one cockerel to a flock

    So, if I move him now with his flockmates, when the white rocks move into the big coop in a month or so, will he be "cocky" and try to hurt the newcomers? At that point, he'll only be 4 months old, so I'm presuming puberty won't have fully kicked in yet, is that correct?
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    Adding two batches of pullets and one cockerel to a flock

    It's not like the RIR seeks him out and bullies him. Twice, I've just seen him not get out of her way in time when she was scratching for food near him. She doesn't pursue him.
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    Adding two batches of pullets and one cockerel to a flock

    You would try leaving him in the temp coop with the white rocks until they're ready to integrate with the marans and older hens?
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    Greetings!

    I'm in the high desert Big Bend Region of Far West Texas.
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    Adding two batches of pullets and one cockerel to a flock

    Hi, I have an existing flock of 5 older hens (3 reds, an ameraucana, and a buff orpington). In early April, I ordered and received 5 cuckoo maran female chicks and one salmon faverolle male chick. They moved out from the brooder to a temporary coop fenced off in the same run with the big girls...
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    Greetings!

    Thanks! Glad to be here.
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    HELP! I don't know what else to do with new chicks/hens

    I've read (can't remember where) that it might be helpful to place the crabby hen in a dog crate in a totally separate space for a week or so--out of sight from the others. This causes her to lose her place in the pecking order, and apparently changes her attitude.
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    Greetings!

    Hi, First time poster to this forum, which I've perused many times over the past couple of years. By way of introduction, I first got chickens in 2017. Our initial flock was 6 Rhode Island Red chicks, which I bought at the local feed store. While the girls were growing, my son and I built this...
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