Chicken attacking new ones!

[Criticalicious]

QT would have been a good idea - although if they're within sight are they far enough away to be quarantined?

 

[aart]

Too late now, but I would have thought someone would have mentioned keeping the new birds quarantined for a couple of weeks, away from the rooster but within sight, in case one of them is diseased. That would have also made integration easier.

That boat had sailed. And it doesn't make integration easier because.....

QT would have been a good idea - although if they're within sight are they far enough away to be quarantined?

Yes, quarantine needs to be farther than the 'within sight' that integration uses.

 

[kwhites634]

That boat had sailed. And it doesn't make integration easier because.....

Yes, quarantine needs to be farther than the 'within sight' that integration uses.

My rooster was smart; dialed one eye in for long range. When I turned him in with half a dozen hens, it took all of 10 seconds to mount the first one he saw.