can we have chicken cousins visit our flock?

[EggWalrus]

Heck, if it's only two weeks, put them in your bag tub and close the shower curtain. Let them out to free range when your there to keep an eye on them. But let them she in your bath. Is plenty big enough for two hens to sleep in. You could brood 20 chicks in a tub. Just cut the end off a broom stick and lay it across tub for them to roost on or they will roost on your shower rod and probably tear it down. If, and only if, they are house broken, you could let them free range in the day and sleep on your pillow with you like that girl used to do about 2 years ago.
Funny, I haven't seen her posting about her house chicken here lately.

 

[Mamatomany123]

well how do people add hens to their adult flocks then?

i am hoping to get serious help and info

We integrated 4 new babies in with our adult flock. But it took 3 weeks of see but no touch. It will take longer adding adult hens into adult hens.

 

[Mamatomany123]

the possum that has visited us comes for chicken feed not to eat our hens.

You need to start putting up your chicken feed because soon they will start killing your chickens also.

 

[Folly's place]

Opossums do kill chickens!
Mary

 

[toastyteddy]

Just a suggestion, if you have a garage, you can put them in there if its safe and the temperature doesn't get bad

 

[funnyfoshay]

Those are horrible conditions. Why doesn’t she give her girls a roost bar or something? Chickens need 3-4 square feet per bird inside. Why would Walmart sell chicken coops, actually better question, why would someone buy a chicken coop from Walmart?

her hens choose to sleep in the boxes and are perfectly comfortable...I am pretty offended and insulted by your response to be hones

 

[funnyfoshay]

Heck, if it's only two weeks, put them in your bag tub and close the shower curtain. Let them out to free range when your there to keep an eye on them. But let them she in your bath. Is plenty big enough for two hens to sleep in. You could brood 20 chicks in a tub. Just cut the end off a broom stick and lay it across tub for them to roost on or they will roost on your shower rod and probably tear it down. If, and only if, they are house broken, you could let them free range in the day and sleep on your pillow with you like that girl used to do about 2 years ago.
Funny, I haven't seen her posting about her house chicken here lately.

thanks for your post. my sister picked them up a few hours after we realized they were not going to integrate easily...idk why it was so easy last year?

 

[Mamatomany123]

her hens choose to sleep in the boxes and are perfectly comfortable...I am pretty offended and insulted by your response to be hones

It's really not good for them though. I'm not going to bash your sister because everyone has to learn somewhere and she may not know. But chickens poop a lot at night and if they are sleeping in the nesting boxes then they're sleeping in their poop. Make sure she has her roost higher than her boxes because that may be why they're sleeping in there.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

People are not trying to be insulting, @funnyfoshay. They are concerned about the welfare of chickens and really trying to be helpful. I'm sorry it didn't work out for you to take care of your sister's chickens along with your own. Chickens can be very inconvenient! We have 30, and ideally, when we have to be away, we would need someone to come over three times a day to care for them. Once, early, to let them out. Again in the afternoon to toss them some scratch and open the gates so they can free-range, and gather eggs. And finally, about dusk to lock them securely in their coop. We have a near relative but we don't like to ask unless it's an emergency, so we're pretty much tied to home and the chickens.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

It's really not good for them though. I'm not going to bash your sister because everyone has to learn somewhere and she may not know. But chickens poop a lot at night and if they are sleeping in the nesting boxes then they're sleeping in their poop. Make sure she has her roost higher than her boxes because that may be why they're sleeping in there.

You'll also get much cleaner eggs if the hens roost outside of the nests.