mine are one 3 week old chick, 8 one week chicks, and one day old. My 3 week old chick was lonely and I introduced the 8 when he was 2 weeks old. he was happy to have friends. and my day old, I put in 2 bantams for the first day then tucked everyone under a mom. now they are happy.
tell me about it! I just got one blue andelusian to ad to our flock of week old babies, I took 2 babies out separate and the will eat and drink then at night the go back to broody, they will be fine. before that, I had a 2 week old single with mom, then gave 8 new babies, now this one.