and since I'm currently watching everything my newbies do with an eagle eye to work out whether they are sick or just confused about going from a 50chicken farm, to a 2 chicken pen... I'm glad I have them seperate, otherwise I would be stressing about the newbies, AND the girls I have grown attached to.
Although, I'm currently in trouble with the original girls, they havent been kept inside the run for more than 3 days since.. ever. And they are quite vocal in their displeasure at being restrained
Hi! I am doing this right now. We adopted two 6 week old chicks from a family who bought them for a school project and were just going to dump them somewhere. My nephew was distraught about this and called me to see if we would adopt them. My husband built a chicken tractor for the new chicks and for now, they are in a different section of our little urban farm. They will remain "quarantined" for another few weeks. This also gives them time to grow more before we begin introducing them into our already established flock.