MrPaw
Songster
I'm thinking about getting hatching eggs of the breed I want to start raising, using a silkie broody hen. They will be separated from the main group but still visible. through a chain link fence. My question is will the chicks, full size Blue Wheaten Ameraucana, change pecking order status as they grow and harm the silkie? If so should the silkie be removed before an age that causes pecking order issues? Or just let them work it out? I would really want to keep them, mommy and growing babies, all together. I'm hoping there will be a rooster from the hatch and I'll move him in with the existing big girls in the main pen.