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So far, so good! She’s out of the separate enclosure and adapting to things as well as starting to integrate with the rest of the flock. There’s still the occasional squabble but they usually take place for a short amount of time first thing in the morning when they are out and about eating and...

Update this morning- the new girl figured out how to get over the chicken wire divider and joined the others on the roost last night. When I got up this morning all the others were out pecking and scratching in the chicken yard while she was still hanging out in the roost alone. So I moved her...

Thanks aart! Great article! What I did yesterday evening was divided the 12x12 chicken yard/run up into two 6x12 areas via running some chicken wire down the middle. I placed the new hen “Darth Vader” (as I had a chicken that looked like her when I was a little kid and had named it that lol)...

I guess I could run some chicken wire or hardware cloth down the middle of the run to give rhe single new hen more room than just a dog kennel for a while and see how it goes after that? But how long will I need to do that for??

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I only have a single run and one coop. So the only way I can separate them is with a dog kennel which is big enough for a single bird. My coop nor my run is divided either… Maybe if there was one main bully chicken I could put it in the kennel. But...

Hey all! I got a new hen to add into my existing 2 year old flock about a week ago. The new addition is a hen that’s about a year old and my existing 6 hens are about 2 years old. I did the whole “see no touch” routine for about a week but when I let the new girl out of the separate...