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- Jan 23, 2010
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We do have a smaller house which I have now set up as the naughty house. I will separate the aggressors into that house for a couple of days and then try re-introducing them one at a time and see if that helps and switch the pecking order around some.
The 12 week olds arent really any smaller then the adult hens now. When they are together the only way to tell them apart is the adult hens have larger combs. The thing with the new chicks is for lack of a better word, their CHICKENS! They are not brave at all, or very curious about things. The adults when they were chicks were curious about everything they would check things out and get into everything. This new batch wont even come out of the pen with out me physically moving them out. They have been able to leave the pen for about 2 weeks now and they will only put one foot out the door and thats it. They are also very capable of defending themselves and just wont do it and Giant the one thats getting the wrath of it is larger than all the chickens but shes the biggest CHICKEN of them all.
We do have a smaller house which I have now set up as the naughty house. I will separate the aggressors into that house for a couple of days and then try re-introducing them one at a time and see if that helps and switch the pecking order around some.
The 12 week olds arent really any smaller then the adult hens now. When they are together the only way to tell them apart is the adult hens have larger combs. The thing with the new chicks is for lack of a better word, their CHICKENS! They are not brave at all, or very curious about things. The adults when they were chicks were curious about everything they would check things out and get into everything. This new batch wont even come out of the pen with out me physically moving them out. They have been able to leave the pen for about 2 weeks now and they will only put one foot out the door and thats it. They are also very capable of defending themselves and just wont do it and Giant the one thats getting the wrath of it is larger than all the chickens but shes the biggest CHICKEN of them all.