Search results for query: *

Update: integration complete. After joint ranging for a few days, 2 of the 12 week olds pullets followed the older girls into their coop. The next night, I added another by mo from the grow out coop to roosting bar in the full coop. The next day, the final 2 pullets followed the rest into the...

Sounds like you're saying I should be patient. Not a strong point of mine. But I'm learning...

The 3 older chicks are 23 weeks and laying. The coop is 8'Lx6'W and 6'H (9' at peak) I reconfigured the interior with poop boards 6" beneath the roosting bars with 12 linear feet of roosting bars. The 5 younger pullets are 12 weeks old. About 2 weeks ago I snuck them into the coop at night. The...

Update : I've had the 5 new pullets ranging within a 100x 100 area, returning to their grow out coop. Usually on top rather than inside. The 3 older pullets range with a fence in area about 200x200 that surrounds the younger birds. I've been feeding them at the fence line so they get close to...

Good point! The bottom foot is 2"w x 1"h. Then the top 3' is 3"x3". So far, no issues. Lots of food and water stations in each ring, but for the most part they're feasting in grasshoppers.

Developed a new plan. I put a 200x200 electric net inside the acre that I had previously better off. The older pullets own the outer ring. The young pullets have the inner ring. Letting them range alongside one another for a few days, then I'll remove the inner ring. We have a week of warm...

Unfortunately the young pullets are only 11 weeks old - so they won't be laying before winter arrives (and maybe not until spring). I think I'll see how joint ranging goes. If not, I may process the older birds. If I give them a few weeks of joint ranging, then remove the grow out coop - might...

This is what I tried 2 nights ago. I used only a red light on my headlamp and moved the 5 young 12 week old pullets into the coop with the 3 23 week olds. I placed them on a different roosting bar about 3 feet from the nearest older pullet. Not a single noise made by the older girls. It wasn't...

I suppose the way I walk after knee and hip replacements may look like a rooster strutting so I could understand their confusion....

Squatting down, wings flattened, tail feathers swishing to the side. All three started doing it about 3 weeks ago, eggs started a few days later. New to chickens - but even I knew what that was... And then they pounced on the younger pullet.

They are always out in the run. I swap out with clean waterers in the a.m. and add more food to the feeders. So they big birds had access to food and water, and the younger pullets had access in an area I blocked off with pallets so they could escape the bigger pullets. They were in the run...

I think @igorsMistress is right - everything seemed to be going fine until I came out with food and fresh water. The attack came while I was in the run with them - so it seems I triggered it, even though they had access to additional feeders and hiding space. @ScottyGill - I think it wasn't...

Will do. Thanks. I'll let you know next time I try to integrate!

Somehow in the midst of processing yesterday, I missed a few recommendations. Missing some advice, I snuck the 5 new birds into the coop last night. I also left the pop door open so the new pullets could escape into the run if needed. Everything seemed to be going fine until I came out to swap...

So it sounds like shared ranging area to start then see how it goes. The area has plenty of hiding areas. Do you think sneaking them in to the coop overnight, the same night I cull most of the flock is a bad idea?

Thank you.

I've got a flock of 13 pullets; all 22 weeks old. Three are laying, and the rest of the dual purpose birds are headed to the freezer on Wednesday. I also have a separate group of 5 (EE, SLW, GLW, Whiting true blue and whiting true green) that at least 3 are intended to be layers. They are 11...