integrate flocks

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...

I need some advice about integrating but in a kind of backwards way… usually I see people integrating pullet with older hens… I want to do the opposite. I have 3 pullets, about 12 weeks old. I’m wanting to rescue a few more hens but they’re about 12 months old so will be larger than the...

We had two flocks of two hens each in coops that share a hardware cloth wall (they can see each other). The two flocks are sworn enemies of each other and all attempts to integrate have failed. We aren't talking a few pecks, this is a battle to the death, fighting like I have only ever seen...

We got three Barred Rock pullets (maybe 10-14 weeks old) recently and I spoke for two Salmon Faverolles from the same place to be picked up later. I only researched breeds that would be good with children. Not with each other 🤦‍♀️ We brought the 6 week old Faverolles home last weekend and...

Hello chicken enthusiasts! Back in April, I was only able to get two barred rock (due to some specific circumstances). I had them in the run for a few weeks, so that they would know that it was their home and such. My older flock, free ranges and would come and go from the run as they would...

I was planning to give my chicks more room in the brooder when they discovered that they could escape in to the run from a break they made through the green mesh I used to keep them separate from the hens. So far they’re behaving, but I lost one chick to the hens already so I’m keeping an eye...

Hi, I'm needing some advice for introducing younger chickens. I have 3 standard 10 week old pullets and two 10 week old Seramas. They grew up together and are perfectly happy together but I'm wanting to eventually move the 3 bigger girls in with my existing flock consisting of four 7 month old...

Hello all! I have a couple questions that I think I can answer myself but need a little confirmation on. I recently evacuated due to the wildfires raging in California and not only had to separate some of my flock, but also mix a bunch of them together. The night I left home with my family, we...

I have 2 flocks. 6x 1 year old easter egger hens In a small coop and enclosure and 14x 3 month old mixed chicks (7 hens,7 roosters I hatched in an incubator from someone’s backyard eggs) the 14 are in a big coop and bigger enclosure. I want to move the other 6 into the big coop with them. They...