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  1. O

    Chicken integration question- won’t come out of the coop

    I did the "place on the roost at night" method last night to integrate, but now I am worried about a new chicken who has only come out of the coop once, was pecked at/chased and retreated back to the roost bar in the coop. Should I encourage her to leave the coop or leave her be? What about food...
  2. Night One of Lucy and The Chicks living in the same space

    Night One of Lucy and The Chicks living in the same space

    I had the new coop ready for the whole flock, but Lucy decided she wants to sleep in her old coop, in her favorite spot. What Lucy Wants, Lucy Gets.
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  3. D

    Duck Integration Problems

    Hello. I have 4 hens 1.5 years old (3 pekins, 1 harlequin). They are fairly skittish and always have been. I recently got 3 more ducklings (khaki, harlequin, cayuga) that I raised in my house until about 5 weeks old when I moved them outside into their own pen and both sets could see each other...
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    • duckling ducks integration
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    • Forum: Ducks
  4. Raising Bantams from chicks to parenthood(Including silkies and polish chickens)

    Raising Bantams from chicks to parenthood(Including silkies and polish chickens)

    This is probably gonna have some small stuff about what coop to house them in. My flock currently consists of: 2 crele OEGBs (Diadem and Walnut) (hens) 1 BB Red OEGB (Chestnut) (hen) 1 SilverDW OEGB (Opal) (hen) 1 Golden Sebright (Franklin.D. Roostervelt) (Rooster) 2 Gray-blue splash silkies...
  5. sapphiresilkie7

    Integrating silkies into flock

    Good Morning everyone, I’m just looking for some advice on integrating some silkies. I have 4 satin/silkie hens already and I have 10 straight run chicks that are almost 9 weeks old. Just wondering when I would be able to integrate them into the flock. I last integrated a lone full size silkie...
  6. D

    Mixing 11 week and 3-4 week old chicks, how to do it safely?

    New to chickens and so far everyone is doing well. Currently have 7 juveniles (5m 2f) @ ~11 weeks in the coop. 2 roosters are now crowing but so far everyone is getting along. I've got 4 chicks I hatched May 15 so they are about 4 weeks old, plus 3 I bought who look to be the same age, then I've...
  7. C

    Odd Integration Situation, advice needed 💜

    Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum and my family just got our first flock of chickens! I'm really excited but it's an odd situation. Basically a family friend had to give away four Silkie hens due to city regulations and we were able to take them in. She also went to a poultry swapand surprised...
  8. E

    New flock integration

    Hi there! I am starting my backyard flock with a chicken tractor. I am due to pick up three 7month old hens and two 4month old hens on the same day. I am wondering everyone’s thoughts on best way to integrate these girls? It’s no one’s “turf” because they’re all new (literally at the same time)...
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    Integrating new hens or keeping a separate flock for my second rooster

    I have a flock of 12 hens and 2 roosters. They are all roughly 8 months old. One of the roosters is clearly dominant. The other spends his day on the outskirts of the flock or with the occasional hen if they can find privacy. The only time he seems to have much company is in the evening when 3-4...
  10. DC_WIngnut

    Weirdly calm pullet addition

    So today I had two bielefelder pullets and one BCM cockerel I added to our main flock. There were 8 weeks. The cockerel while cute and lovely will probably be rehomed in the next two weeks but I didn’t want to separate him from his two gals to integrate them into the main flock and leave him...
  11. Debbie292d

    Integration Day - SUCCESS! So far!

    We've had 7 silkies living the opposite side of the yard since March. Now they are almost 5 months old and winter is coming so...we shut the door to their temp coop. I got the sunflower hearts bag out (ultimate treat) and got them down to the coop. Getting them into the chicken door took a...
  12. saving grace

    When Should I Integrate Chicks?

    I know there are a lot of threads discussing integration, but I thought I would just ask for advice since my situation is unique. I have two coops: the first is for my adult hens, though in the warmer months they refuse to sleep in the coop and roost in the trees at night (I've come to the...
  13. sissypooh1979

    Combining 2 flocks

    I am new here, and new to the whole chicken thing. Back in April I got 2 buff orphingtons, 1 maran, and 2 easter egger pullets. Then a couple months after I got a polish mixed roo and polish mix bantam hen who did well integrating with my others. Over summer I got obsessed with wanting silkies...
  14. schambo

    Chicken math

    I currently have 3 chickens - an approx. 18-month-old Bovans Brown called Lulu (used to have 2 until we had a racoon visit...), plus a 12-week-old EE called Jellybean and a 12-week-old barred rock called Pepper that I added earlier this spring. Lulu is not super impressed with the new additions...
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    Identification of rescued ducks?

    We rescued two baby ducklings on Aug 9th that were dumped at the local pond. Possibly some undergraduate project, it coincided with the end of summer term at TAMU. Can anyone identify what kind they are? I kind of think Indian Runner and Pekin cross (is that a thing?).. they seem to stand up...
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    • ducks identification integration
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    Quarantine setup - anything else I should do?

    Hi there! I'm a new chicken mom, and I have gotten a few more birds from a neighbor that are in quarantine. However, I was very nervous when I first got chickens about predators (we do have raccoons in the area, though we have a large dog and I haven't seen them in my yard before). I worked hard...
  17. m1chelle1

    How to integrate new geese with existing flock?

    Hello BYC Fam! I have two female 6 month old Pilgrims. They had a gander (my beautiful baby boy RIP) but he sacrificed himself to save his girls and is in goose heaven now. The two girls were entirely dependent on his leadership and his protection and are incredibly distressed by his passing...
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    • geese goose integration
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    • Forum: Geese
  18. emalin

    Integration fiasco

    I’ve integrated new chickens several times without issue. What is going on with this batch?! This was a small hatch of just two—one BC Marans rooster & one hopefully olive egger hen (maransXamerucana). They are about 2 months old & I delayed putting them in the coop because of extreme heat...
  19. Deucebland

    New roo and hens questions

    I had some chicken drama, involving a Fox and some hens. My set up is free range with a large secure coop for feeding, sleeping and laying. Long story short, I ended up getting a big astrolorp roo a little over a year old and 6 1yr old hens. I made the choice to integrate them all at once with...
  20. Yabadabadoo

    Flock integration (x2, #9 are 10-12 weeks and #8 are 7-8 weeks)

    Hello! We have chicks (we had a mature flock, but all have passed), and this is my first experience raising chicks and integrating flocks. In part because we didn’t know what we didn’t know, we ended up with a 3-5 week age difference between our two groupings, then due to space constraints, we...
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