Adding new birds to a flock?

[JennaLynn122]

What is your yard/set up like? We have a paddock system with different yards surrounding a central coop, so what we did is stuck our chicks who are now about 9wks and fully feathered into a smaller coop/run structure we have inside one of the yards. When the weather is nice we will let them out to their yard while the big girls and rooster are in the adjacent yard so they are separated by a fence. then we will put them into the big coop at night and the next morning let them out together into a different yard altogether, supposedly itll be like neutral territory for all the birds.

This is however our first shot at adding new birds since we got our rooster. When we got him, we didnt know anything and just put him in with our girls in the day and they hit it off lol

My coop is built into the pole barn an we have the run built on the outside(obv.) connected to it. I have a fence behind my house but that's the dogs area and the rest is just a normal home yard. We are planning on refencing an area behind the barn that would connect to the chicken run and eventually putting a small door from the run to it.