Chickens fighting

[Acre4Me]

good advice above. You will need to get creative for a bit to prevent any one of them from getting too badly hen-pecked. They are flock animals and instinctively will protect from an intruder. The new ones are intruders. But, they will eventually make peace, but it can be a lot of turmoil until then. Ask friends if they have a dog crate to borrow, one that is big enough. Portable rabbit cages can work, depending on size, or even a rabbit hutch someone may not be currently using as they are not usually too big and might fit inside your enclosure.

perches are a good idea too. We had 12 younger chickens integrating into our flock - a few WEEKS behind a fence with some short supervised times, then final integration during the day. But, some of the hens were fixated on these chicks (that were 7-8 weeks old or older at this point), so we ended up adding some roost bars just so the young ones could get up and out of the way of the older ones. It worked, peace was restored.

Good luck!

 

[Mrs. K]

you might try pin-less peepers. They work well in very small area's.

Mrs K

 

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

you might try pin-less peepers. They work well in very small area's.

Mrs K

I had to google that, WOW, I had no idea there was such a thing! thank you!

 

[rosemarythyme]

Any photos of your set up? It sounds like it could be too small or too bare to make for an easier integration, if you don't have space to keep them separated.