- Mar 14, 2011
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Start with I should have known better...
I got some chickens from a very nice lady off Craigslist today. She ordered them and then found out her family is moving cross country.
I have 8 8-week old chicks. I built for 16 and wanted to expand my flock. However due to circumstances and finances, I knew that brooding chicks and keeping them separate for several months, months from now, would be impossible. So I decided to get chicks the same age as mine.
I got 3 EE that she said are 7 weeks. They are just a bit smaller than my girls. I also got 2 (what I believe to be Wyanadottes; she got a mixed pack from the hatchery) and she swore they were all the same age.... but they are half the size of my birds.
Tell me what to do. They have to go together. I have no other space, I have no funds, time, or manpower to create a space.
They have been in the run fighting for 3 hours. The smaller of the two littles was picked on bad, strangely, the larger was not. I made them a special corner in the run for them with chicken wire so they could play safely. I also have a cat-taxi to put them in inside the coop tonight.
WHAT CAN I DO? I wish I had never even attempted this. I drove over an hour and spent the little "fun money" I have. I am so upset. I am also so upset that I believed the lady when she said it would be fine, just mix them right away, they are all chicks, they will do fine. I am seriously worried I am going to find an injured or dead chicken by morning. Help, Please!
I got some chickens from a very nice lady off Craigslist today. She ordered them and then found out her family is moving cross country.
I have 8 8-week old chicks. I built for 16 and wanted to expand my flock. However due to circumstances and finances, I knew that brooding chicks and keeping them separate for several months, months from now, would be impossible. So I decided to get chicks the same age as mine.
I got 3 EE that she said are 7 weeks. They are just a bit smaller than my girls. I also got 2 (what I believe to be Wyanadottes; she got a mixed pack from the hatchery) and she swore they were all the same age.... but they are half the size of my birds.
Tell me what to do. They have to go together. I have no other space, I have no funds, time, or manpower to create a space.
They have been in the run fighting for 3 hours. The smaller of the two littles was picked on bad, strangely, the larger was not. I made them a special corner in the run for them with chicken wire so they could play safely. I also have a cat-taxi to put them in inside the coop tonight.
WHAT CAN I DO? I wish I had never even attempted this. I drove over an hour and spent the little "fun money" I have. I am so upset. I am also so upset that I believed the lady when she said it would be fine, just mix them right away, they are all chicks, they will do fine. I am seriously worried I am going to find an injured or dead chicken by morning. Help, Please!