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...
Agnes, one of my four hens, went broody in mid-May. Rather than trying to break her out of it, I decided to let her try to hatch some (potentially) fertilized eggs I got from a friend.
All the hens insisted on using the same nest box, climbing on top of Agnes to do so. In order to give Agnes...