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I just wanted to give an update. We brought the roos over to our friends flock on Monday. So far they're doing good. They're in a smallish coop in the run / fenced in yard of their flock. This way the girls get to meet them and get used to them before they integrate them into the flock. Within...

I agree that one month is too short of a time line. That's why I think that if I approach it with him where we go one month and then check in...that it might soften the blow a little for him. My adult 'mom' plan is to take him up on that one month, and then after one month we have another talk...

Thank you both so much :). I talked to our friends and they are totally good with the idea of doing this...however my son is really upset about it. He's 10, and really attached to all the chicks. I tried to explain it to him by saying that it's sort of like sending them off to training camp so...

Thank you! That’s a really interesting idea. I really need to think about this.

We're a newbie chicken family. We hatched eggs from friends and currently have 7 almost six week old chicks (3 cockerels and 4 pullets). We're going to be giving one of our roos to our friends established flock of hens. I believe they currently have 15 hens (ages range from 3 months - 2 years...