combining flocks

Hello everyone, We have seven mature hens in a coop some of which have begun to lay and a run attached to a grow out pen containing ten pullets. They are going on 8 weeks so I was wanting to combine them. I’ve made two entrance and exit doors for the pullets to go in and out of the run with the...

This is our second time doing meat chickens (Cornish X) & we started an experiment with two brooders - one with a traditional heat lamp & one with a plate style brooder heater. So far they are all looking great with the traditional heat lamp ones slightly bigger. My question is in a couple weeks...

Hey y'all! Just wanted to get some advice about keep ducks and chickens in the same flock. I know it's done, but before I do it, I want to know if there are any items I should know that may cause harm to my hens. I've heard of things like male ducks breeding hens, and it causing problems with...

I have three 2 yo hens and four young hens about 6 months old. I built a new coop for them and the older gals won’t sleep on the roosts, they just sleep on the floor of the coop. Their previous coop had the roosts only a few inches off the coop floor and now it’s about a foot off the ground. I...

Hey everyone I have a quick question. I have two 10 week old harlequins and four adult khaki campbells Including a drake. They have all met through a fence and seem to accept each other. (Hang out and deliberately seek each other out) I have them separate though because I didn't know if the...

Unfortunately I have lost three of my hens recently to an attack by the neighbours dog. We only have one left surviving, who we actually found in the dog’s mouth. However, she has pulled through and is still with us, although a little traumatised. I don’t want to introduce new hens just yet...

Hi everyone! So I am buying my first house and the home owners have let us keep some of their chickens! I picked out maybe 4 Olive Egger hens, a bantam Porcelain d'Uccle rooster, a cream legbar rooster, another bantam rooster (can't remember breed), a couple of Welsummer hens, and a pair of...

Here’s the situation. I have 1 laying adult hen, 9 months old. I also have 4 chicks, 11 weeks old , that I have been slowly introducing over the past month. Everyone is co-habiting, but they are separated by baby gates, both in the run and in the coop at night. There have been minor skirmishes...

Hello! I am a new chicken owner and this forum has already become invaluable to me. My husband and I live on the Nisqually River in Washington State (hence the screen name). We have 13 chicks that are now 4 weeks (and some change) old. They have been living outside full time and thriving for a...

I have 27 3 week old chicks, and in 10 days am getting another batch the same size. Does anyone have advice/tips for combining the two groups? The coop is large enough and more.

So I have 3 black sex links that are a year old. There is not fighting amongst the three they get along great. I’m adding 3 EEs (they were supposed to be AMs). The EEs are pretty big and the run area has been divided for 3 weeks now to give them time to adjust to each other. The EEs have been...