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  1. JFrenchDivine

    Integrating chickens and ducks to coop;

    Hey yall, As I mentioned in my intro thread, I've raised chickens before, but not ducks. They'll all be coop ready within the next few weeks, so I have been slowly introducing them to one another. I have had them outside together in the yard, but they haven't really paid mind to one another...
  2. MrsWinterWheat

    Opinion needed on Integration - 3 adult birds, 4 older chicks, 21 chicks, and ? poults

    I need help making a plan to transition everyone into one flock. Current ages and locations: Main coop, access to run, and free ranging 3 year old rooster 3 year old Guinea Fowl (male) 4 year old Turkey (female) They are my only left after a very hard and traumatic winter. I had raccoons...
  3. M

    Quail integration?

    Hey guys! Something broke into my quail coop and killed all but one quail it’s like they just disappeared out of the coop minus some feathers outside of it. Idk what even got in really? The holes to the coop are so small… Anyhow… I don’t want the single quail to be lonley and was wondering...
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  4. BerthaBoo

    Integrating 3 new chicks in with flock of 6, all same age

    Hi everyone! I have a total of 8 young pullets, 1 cockeral right now. All are 9-10 weeks old now. 6 of the pullets + the cockerel (all bym) were brooded together, and I added the three extra pullets (two cream/one pearl legbar) about two weeks ago, when they were all about 7-8 weeks old...
  5. Duckduckgoosie

    another question about my new rooster I’m obsessed with now

    I have a small backyard flock of 5 hens and 2 young pullets. Last week I adopted my elderly neighbor’s last four birds- she had three hens and a rooster, all bantam cochins. Plan was to take just her hens but Mr Fancy Pants is so beautiful and according to her a good rooster to his girls, so I...
  6. Duckduckgoosie

    month old silkies, newly hatched barred rocks?

    Not sure how seriously I’m considering this plan but could you see brooding 4 week old silkie chicks with much younger barred rocks? Two of each, so 4 chicks total. I’m wondering if such an arrangement might actually help a pair of silkies have a smoother time eventually joining our current...
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