- Sep 9, 2011
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Hi,
Real chicken novice here - I've just had adult hens before, integrated new ones successfully etc etc. However, at the moment, I have just one hen. At my children's nursery they hatched out chicks in an incubator. Just one survived and the kids put us forward to have it!
I have been keeping the chick indoors in a little enclosure with heat lamp etc. It's been fed chick crumb only, and water, and is thriving and growing like mad.
Has anyone got any advice on when and how to introduce/integrate it to my other hen? She isn't broody at the mo' so not sure how she'll take to a newbie, but thought being on her own might make it easier as the pecking order would be easily established!
What do you all think????
Real chicken novice here - I've just had adult hens before, integrated new ones successfully etc etc. However, at the moment, I have just one hen. At my children's nursery they hatched out chicks in an incubator. Just one survived and the kids put us forward to have it!
I have been keeping the chick indoors in a little enclosure with heat lamp etc. It's been fed chick crumb only, and water, and is thriving and growing like mad.
Has anyone got any advice on when and how to introduce/integrate it to my other hen? She isn't broody at the mo' so not sure how she'll take to a newbie, but thought being on her own might make it easier as the pecking order would be easily established!
What do you all think????