mixing flock

  1. paradisepentacoop

    Introducing 6 week old pullets to a 4 month old mixed flock...

    Good day all~ I have my main flock of Australorps and Sebrights that I want to add three 6 week old pullets to. The problem I am facing is that my pullets are already the size of the four month old Sebright bantams. This prevents the usual "provide a hiding place for the littles to get away from...
  2. M

    Mixing Big girls & Bantams???

    We adopted our first chickens 9 beautiful big girls last summer. they’re all about 2-3 yrs old. This March we got 6 bantam chicks. 2 of them are Roos. We’ve had them separated this whole time but for the last about 2-3 months they free run together but are still sleeping separate. They seem to...
  3. lazylizzy

    Integrating 4-week old chicks into 18-week flock?

    Hi All!! I have three 18-week-old chickies (one rooster, two hens), and four 4-week old chickies. Not sure of any of the breeds, but I’m having fun trying to figure it out! Now that it’s summer, I want the babies outside ASAP. Today I put the babies in a dog crate and stuck them in the run. It...
  4. Nasnro

    Mixing Two flocks

    Hi all, I'm looking at getting a second flock of hens and a roo. I've had my existing flock for 5 years. Im looking for the second flock as a breeding flock. They will be housed on separate parts of the property. My main question is when I let them free range during the day will they go back...
  5. J

    Mixing new with old chickens

    I have 4 existing chickens that I hatched (3 roosters :( and a hen) in one larger coop and I have 4 new hens in a smaller coop. I have kept the new ones quarantined for 4-5 weeks in the small coop but just let them all free range this weekend. They were ok except the small roosters are getting...
  6. A

    Pecking Order Questions

    I've had 3 normally laying rhode island red hens, and i just added 2 barred rocks and 1 buff orphington. Obviously, they started pecking each other, mainly the rhode island reds (Hot Sauce, Princess Carolyn, and Lady Peckinpaw) were the ones doing the pecking. So when are they going to finish...
  7. Afrodigh

    Best Layers for Newbie

    I'm starting a backyard flock of four this spring. I'm looking for egg-layers that do well confined to a run (free ranging isn't an option). The run will be 4'x10'. I've heard it's best to get hens in pairs so I'm thinking of two Barred Rocks and then two of another breed. I've heard Rhode...
  8. ben0125

    What age to mix silkies with flock

    I have two chicken coops, one prefab one for my Silkies and one for my 6 month old chickens, and the biggest ones sleep in the trees. I Need to know when to put the Silkies in with the bigger chickens. They have seen but not touched eachother for over a month now but I'm still not very sure...
  9. Lollipopchiki3

    Crested Polish and White Sultan with bantams?

    So I Am wondering if it would be ok to add 1 white crested blue polish female and 1 white sultan female chicks with my 1 white molted Cochin bantam female chick, 1 porcelain d'uccle bantam female, 1 blue female silkie bantamfemale chick, 4 female Easter eager bantam, and 1 male white Silkie...
    • Lollipopchiki3
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    • easter egger bantams mixing flock molted cochin porcelian d'uccle silkies white crested polish white sultan
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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