Alaska Chicken Lover's Soup for the Cold!!

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Just introduce them when you have time to watch and intervene.
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Do it a little each day until they're used to each other, or segregate her so she can see everyone but can't get to them. After a couple of weeks you should be able to let her out with little to no problems.
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Ok If she starts trying to pull stuff I will problubly do that. Shes still young (4.5 months old) So im hoping that she wont be aggressive. I know she may be defensive but im hoping she doesnt show agression and go after the new chickens lol.

EDIT: actually shes only 3.5 months old, I keep forgetting I got her when I got my barred rock. Shes just so big that I think shes older lol. She dwarfs almost every one except the new barred rock rooster. Which shes bigger than he is but hes also bigger then the rest of the chickens too, big enuph that if she picks a fight he may put up a good fight lol, thats what I dont want happening.

But I guess we will see. I have them in a pen directly next to my other pen and didnt know to quarentine them they needed to be farther away so I may have kinda ruined the quarentine. The lady I got them from said they were all perfectly healthy so Im hoping they dont have any thing. I just got done reading the quarentine thing on a diffrent post. Hope I didnt mess up bad.
 
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Gosh I don't know. The cayenne worked for me. Do you have a rooster with them? I suspect that they will perk the hens up sometimes too, if you don't have one. Other than that I haven't a clue. Someone here might know something helpful. There are some very knowledgible people here.
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for your hatch! Sounds like you did okay.
 
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Gosh I don't know. The cayenne worked for me. Do you have a rooster with them? I suspect that they will perk the hens up sometimes too, if you don't have one. Other than that I haven't a clue. Someone here might know something helpful. There are some very knowledgible people here.
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for your hatch! Sounds like you did okay.

My thoughts on it are that chickens love creature comforts. ie. clean coops/hay/nestboxes. If I go too long between cleanings, they start slacking. If there's not enough clean hay in the boxes... they start slacking. If I don't feed them enough protein, fresh water, 14 hours of daylight... they start slacking. Have you checked for lice? That will somethimes throw them off. Is there a chance that they're hiding their nests/eggs? I discovered quite by accident that many of my girls were squeezing into the small space between the top of the nest boxes and the ceiling of the coop, and laying their eggs up there. How old are they? Are they old enough to be molting? Lots of factors to consider.

On another note, I got the grow-out pen split, am gathering my supplies and let the inventory-taking begin!!
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I tried giving my girls some cayenne-laced mash, and they snubbed it! I don't think they like anything squishy. Not worms, not slugs, not mash. Man, what do they think this is, a resort? Are they food critics?
 
OK... here's what I have so far... if I missed anyone, please let me know:
Donna - 2 silkies, 2 BCM pullets (tagged yellow)
Aimee - 3 BCM pullets (tagged pink)
Bonnie - 2 Black sexlinks, 1 white silkie hen (I didn't find any blues, yet, that look like girls
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) (tagged blue)
Carmen - 2 BCM pullets, 1 Blue Orp pullet (tagged orange)
Tracy - 2 blue Orpington pullets and 1 silk d'uccle pullet (no tags)
Deb - 1 Blue Copper Marans pullet

Ehaus... I need to talk to you... I mistook you for the "friend" that Carmen spoke to me about...
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Eveil, I only have one more BCM pullet left, she's all black (so far) is about 3-4 months old (medium sized), but her tail has been picked on by the other birds so she's not really "pretty" at the moment.

The inventory of pullets left, all ~ 3 months:
5- peach-faced white Ameraucanas - SPOKEN FOR
1 small Black Orpington Pullet
1 BC Marans (mentioned above)
4-5 that are mixes (AmeraucanaXBCM, AmeraucanaXDorking, DorkingX?, and really cute)
4-5 that are Black Sexlinks

Of course, that's not including the brooder-full in the garage that are about 6-8 weeks old.
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I'm sure there are a few more Orpington pullets, and maybe a couple of BCMs in there.
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Oh my, I've never seen one molt like that before.


And um,,, can we talk peach faced white??
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Like two? And possibly another invoice? Thank you!

ooh, or maybe one Peach faced White, and the AmerXBCM?? What does she look like?
 
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