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  1. H

    Integrating new chicks with slightly older chicks

    Please help. In April, we started a new flock of 6 chicks...going great, mostly tame, then disaster!! and we lost 4 of them. We really wanted 6 so we got 4 new chicks. So now I have 2 that are about 3 months old and 4 that are 1 month old. The younger ones are fully feathered now and ready...
  2. VintageDutchGirl

    Hi! New Chicken Flock owner!

    Been lurking awhile, gleaning wonderful bits of advice for caring for our new flock of 7 chickens! 2 RIR's, 10 weeks old 2 Easter eggers (we think), 10 weeks old 3 "Ameracauna".....or Easter eggers, unsure if they are true Ameracaunas or not, 5 weeks old. Currently converting back 1/4 of our...
  3. LilFrenchies

    Torn tendon recovery & reintegration

    Our little bantam roo (lil Mayo) of 4 months suddenly started limping one day. Checked for injuries or bumble foot, but nothing. He seemed to just be getting on with it and eating drinking socializing very normal so we left it. Four weeks ago I came home to find him in the bushes completely...
  4. hebegray

    New pullet with adult hens

    One of my 8 hens (my favorite one) was killed by a foster dog in my back yard. My hens (golden buffs, barred rocks, and a Rhode Island White) are 9 months old and get along well with each other. Yesterday I went out and bought a 4-month old Ameracauna, and they have terrorized her. She either...
  5. H

    Wanting to add older hens!

    Just got offered to take some laying hens but all I have right now are three 3-month old orpingtons and I want to know if I can introduce those hens to these babies and if I can how should I do it? Thanks!
  6. torinunez

    Integrating my baby ducklings with the older ones

    I have 2 ducks that are 5 1/2 weeks old, and 2 little ducklings that are 1 1/2 weeks. Even just a month apart in age there is a significant difference and sizes, and although I think it's out of curiousity rather than trying to harm them, our older ones will sometimes try to get too close and...
    • torinunez
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    • ducklings ducks flock integration
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Ducks
  7. Dawnclucks22

    Integration Issue! Advice Appreciated!

    Hey everyone. Right now I'm working on integrating my easter egger into our main flock. I've started putting her in the coop at night with the others, but it's small because we only have five birds total. A lot of the time they start bullying her inside and I try to sort things out by going in...
  8. Johntodd

    Integration question ... when to give up?

    We were caught with our pants down and now have 5 healthy baby chicks. OK, the rooster was caught with HIS pants down! LOL! I rigged a separate broody area and moved them into it, but the chicks can easily get out of the fenced area and into the main run with the main flock. There have been no...
  9. Englishable

    Adding a rooster?

    We started our flock of Lavender Orpingtons last year and currently have 11 hens and 2 roosters, all just over a year old. This weekend we hatched our first batch of eggs and want to keep an additional 16 hens (we set 42 eggs, of which 30 hatched; we're setting another batch of eggs tomorrow)...
  10. mirandapanda

    Help! Chick all alone :(

    We just moved our 3 week old Easter Eggers (2 of them) out of our house to the garage 2 days ago. Unfortunately my 4 year old didn't put the lid on all the way after watering them last night and they got out and it looks like something got one of them. We found the other one yelling her head off...
  11. Dawnclucks22

    Moving a chicken to a new coop

    Hey BYC! I'm currently working on integrating my new hen into my flock. Everything is going really well and she'll be moving into the main coop soon. I have a question, however. In my last integration process with my bantams they followed the bigger girls into the coop every night even before...
  12. J

    Advice on Blue Kote/Aprons/Integrating new pullets

    I'm a newbie to BYC and to raising chickens in general, so any and all advice is welcome. A little background (or a lot): We inherited a full grown easter egger from a family member so we're picking up where they left off. Our hen previously had a sister but she passed away recently. Not...
  13. marenwise

    Integrated new chickens... one potential problem?

    Hello. So about 3 weeks ago I integrated two 10 week old pullets into my existing flock of 3 chickens. I did it right. I had the babies in a separate coop/run right next to the main run for 3 weeks before I let the babies into the main enclosure. I also spent a week letting the chickens meet...
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    • coop flock integration help integration new coop transition pullets run
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  14. JavelinaFarms

    Found an injured wild duck... HELP!!

    One of our egg buyers called us today. Apparently, there was a wild male duck hiding under a bush near the building he works in. He was frantic, so we came out and took a look at it. The duck was a bit dehydrated and has had an eye injury at some point. His left eye is hazy and he has been...
    • JavelinaFarms
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    • disease ducks help injured integration male duck wild zoonotic
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Ducks
  15. TxAg11

    How to make new pullets less skittish around me?

    We had a flock we had raised from chicks and they loved us and were constantly climbing all over us and visiting us whenever we are out in the yard. Then we had a dog-related disaster and our flock got rediced to 2, so to keep the 2 remaining girls company (AFTER I redesigned their enclosure to...
  16. Little Coop on Salt Creek

    introducing 5 week old with 9 and 10 week olds

    Hi all! We are so enjoying our life with chicks. It is busier than we thought, but so enjoyable! A question for all you veteran chick raisers out there... we have 6 chicks (3 black australorps and 3 white silkies who are a day away from 5 weeks old; we also have 6 chicks (3 buff orpingtons...
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