Hello from Colorado!

Welcome to BYC, Stacey!

~AnnElise

 

Hello Stacey! from Washington State glad you joined us!

 

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Hi and from Ohio. So glad you joined. I would not put them in with the others just yet. They are still young. If you can put up a divider in the coop so they can see the young ones but can't get to them, plus a heat lamp, it should be OK. Just remember if you put up any heat lamps, make sure there is no way they can fall. Folks have said that fallen heat lamps have caught their barns on fire. Good luck.

 

Hi, welcome... It's good to get familiar with the Search -- and be sure to check (select) "relavency" when you get the results for best answers to your question / subject.

The best way I have found to "introduce" them (babies) to the rest of the flock is to put them in a cage (or two) and set them in the middle of the coop or run (during the day)... put the flock food up against the outside of the cage (cages) and the flock water up against the cage (cages).. put the "babies" food up against the same side inside their cage / cages.. so that the flock and the "new babies" can "eat together".. see each other, be close, but safe with the cage between them for up to three days... also.. you can and should let the babies out of the cage / cages at night, when the rest of the flock is asleep / roosting.. then, if you free range.. keep the babies inside the coop and run, do not let them free range for a few days, until they get used to where they "roost", live, sleep...

Expect some "pecking order" adjustments, some picking on, some bickering, especially when eating.. and it will all calm down in a few days or so....

All the best.

 

Hello and welcome from Southwest Ohio

 

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