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  1. potter9691

    Greeting from Southeastern Minnesota

    Hello from SE Minnesota! I found this group multiple times when reading into different things that happen in back yard chicken flocks. I figured it was time to join the chat and forum. We will have had our current flock of 2 roosters and 21 hens as of last September 2023. We now have 9 more...
  2. K

    Help me integrate my 2 new chicks!

    Hey y'all! I have a little flock of six 4 month old hens, and two 5 week old chicks in my spare room in the brooder. How should I go about integrating? For reference, my coop is roughly 4'x6' with two roosts and 2 nesting boxes (currently unused). My 6 older gals huddle on one roost all...
  3. SaltLakeChickenMama

    Integration: Getting them into the coop for night

    I have 4 one year old hens and 4 two month old chicks I’m working on integrating. During the day, they seem ok. There is some pecking order drama going on, but nothing major. They spend most of the day free ranging and spending some time in the run (200sq ft) staying on opposite sides of the...
  4. Chaunchie

    Combining Flock question

    Hi fellow chicken people! I have a question regarding flocks sharing a run. Chicken math has gotten me too many times and it’s time to downsize. I currently have 2 separate flocks. I am rehoming half of my hens. I am looking to combine my flocks where they use the same run. I have two coops...
  5. M

    Introducing a new 12 week old chicken to my flock

    I just brought home a new hen she is 12 weeks old and I currently have three laying hens that are over a year old. Any advice/tips/recommendations on what I should or shouldn’t be doing would be so helpful. I technically have two coops, one isn’t fully set up but will work, and if need be I can...
  6. H

    HELP! NEW CHICKENS & AGRESSIVE CURRENT FLOCK

    Our current flock of 4 chickens has just become 3. The 3 remaining chickens have bullied and pecked my poor girl to death. We have 12 new girls getting ready to go outside and I'm terrified to integrate the flocks. Is there a possibility of them being able to coexist peacefully (assuming...
  7. Beckys Birds

    Integrating a bunch of different aged pullets, hens and a cockerel.

    So I've been going through BYC for the last two hours, and though I've gotten a lot of great information, I am still uncertain on how to do things specific to my flock. I'll lay out what I've got, and wait for the advice to hopefully poor in! Currently I have three 18 month old hens (one Golden...
    • Beckys Birds
    • Thread
    • intagrating integradingflocks integradingroosters integrating cockerels integrating pullets intergrating a flock
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  8. Browniethechicken

    INTEGRATING UPDATE! Further advice needed on integrating flock

    Well, here we are and the day has come. I’ve spent many many hours integrating my now six week old chicks with my now 19 week old pullets using the See no touch method. Today, I removed the barrier and they were in the run together. I noticed that the big girls pecked at them and the chicks...
  9. Browniethechicken

    Integrating chicks? Am I doing this right?

    I am seeking any advice for how best to integrate my five week old chicks with an existing flock of two pallets aged 18 weeks. At this point in Massachusetts it’s getting chilly so I am doing my best to have them in the run with the girls a few hours every day when the temperatures are at least...
  10. M

    Advice how to integrate 3 (small) silkies?

    I have two mature hens (1 Isa Brown & 1 australorp). I raised 3 silkie chicks and want to eventually merge them all into one coop. I’ve kept the silkies separate and at about 4 months old started putting them together under supervision. The mature hens are constantly bullying the silkies and I...
  11. M

    Adding chicks to a solo hen- a few questions

    I have two 5 week olds (Easter egger and welsummer) that I am prepping to transition to share a run/coop with a 10 month old silkie (last one standing, she’s been on her own for 2 months). Questions (re: food & behavior): 1. How do I keep the chicks eating the starter grower feed and silkie...
  12. Shanshan315

    Flock Integration Advice

    Hi there! I’m new to this site so please forgive me if this has already been asked a million times. I will be integrating four pullets into my flock of four this weekend. I’m doing the “look but don’t touch” method. My questions are these: 1) Once I integrate the new pullets, will they know to...
  13. sammirae09

    How long can a new pecking order take?

    After a week and a half of introducing my new one year old hens to my 4.5 month old bends through fencing I finally braved the introduction process. I had to put 2 older ones in a small cage to themselves for excessively bullying. One was pulling a beak full of feathers, and the other was also...
  14. Phantom_k9

    Need help integrating chickens to our flock

    Hello! So we have three different birds that we need to integrate into our main flock. Two of the three hens are good friends with each other, and the other is a mother hen who is raising three chicks (however, she has all but decided that they can take care of themselves). The mother hen used...
  15. M

    Introducing Baby Chicks...

    Looking for some advice for introducing baby chicks to older chicks... I have 3 8 week old chicks & 2 6 week old ducks who have been moved outside to their coop a week ago. (We had started with 11 chicks but somehow a weasel got into our basement and killed 8 of them 😭) About a week after the...
  16. B

    Roosters fighting

    Hi there, I currently have a happy flock with two roosters and about 30 hens (and 20 more on the way) . I am trying to integrate two more roosters into my flock (I have a big 5acre lot with lots of room for these babies). Well I kept my two new guys in a large dog kennel to start the integration...
  17. K

    Integrating- is it time?

    Ok so our baby birds are now 11-12 weeks old. We have 7 of them and we also have 7 older birds that are established. We let them all out to free range and everyone seems ok- some pecking here and there but mostly young girls keep to themselves and older girls keep to themselves too. We have...
  18. Megsconk

    Integration

    I’m currently in the process of adding one 20 week old speckled Sussex to my two 18 week old golden buffs. We have a very small coop and run and I’m a first time chicken mom so it’s all very stressful. I know I should have had two to integrate (beginner’s mistake). Right now, I’ve cut their run...
  19. AbbysSilkies

    Civil Unrest in the Coop

    Hello! i have 4 2-year-old ISA Brown hens who are as sweet (to people) as can be. One of them can be testy but nothing like a leghorn or RIR; if you move too quickly they crouch. They’ve always been absolute babies, and they let me cuddle them and get along well with the goats. In February of...
  20. E

    Introducing pullets to grown hens?

    Hello everyone! I just posted in the chicken behaviors forum about one of my adult hen’s aggression issues, so if you want some more background there, check out that post. I ordered three baby chicks from MPC: a blue easter egger, a cream legbar, and a snowy easter egger. I am nervous about...
    • emulhall
    • Thread
    • aggresive aggresive hen aggression aggressive behavior grown chickens integradingflocks integrating birds introducing chicks pullet pullet age
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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