introducing pullets

Still very new to the backyard chicken game. Our current mini flock of 4 pullets and 1 cockerel is between 5 and 6 weeks old. My husband and I then got our coop and run ready and realized how much space we really have and were thinking of adding more girls. There is a swap coming up next...

Hello. I have a frizzled cochin bantam and a porcelain d’uccles bantam. I have posted on here before about the cochin’s belligerent personality. Essentially, Gwen, the d’uccles, was so depressed she looked like she was going to die because of the bullying. Now, I have them separated, and...

Hello everyone! So, I have 2 hens and a rooster that I got back in April as chicks, so they're about 18-20 weeks old, a few weeks ago I went to a local hatchery and got 2 more pullets that were about 2 or 3 months old so I could have 4 laying hens but they both ended up being really sick and 1...

I had two hens that I raised from chicks. To be honest, they were a little spoiled - neither of them really knew they were hens, they were part of the family. Sadly, one of them died last year at the age of 2. I know how socialble chickens are, so we didn't want one lonelt hen. We bought 2 hens...

Hello all, I am new to this site and fairly new to chicken owning in general so bear with me please :). I introduced a new pullet (very very sweet black Australorp) to my current Pullets roughly 7 days ago. I followed the rules of quarantine first, then kept my new pullet in a cage in view of...

We have a Speckled Sussex that has been recovering inside from a Vitamin B deficiency (pretty sure as she had curled toes and stopped walking, then improved over time with Poly-vi-Sol) She is doing a lot better than she was but is not fully healed. It's been a couple of months. She still limps...

Our two youngest pullets (a Polish and a Cream Legbar) are about ready to join the rest of our flock. We've integrated a batch before, but there were 8 of them and we had only 4 older chickens so the integration was pretty smooth. However, this time we only have 2 pullets to introduce, and now...