Hello from North Texas!

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machinfarm said:
Thank you! We are in Weatherford, west of Fort Worth about 20 miles. We're actually both from southern CA, the high and dry desert. We moved here about 4 years ago. However I think we were meant to come from Texas all along, it fits us like a glove! :) Thank you again for the welcome!
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You're welcome. Wow, it's a small world after all. I have relatives who live in Weatherford. My wife is from Blue Ridge and I'm from Greenville.
 
tjo804 said:


That is some flock you have! Congrats.
One thing to keep in mind is that you landed in the right place to take on such a project. Here is a link I think you may find useful as you grow your Flock

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/biosecurity-for-the-rest-of-us

Good luck with your new farm!
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Thank you very much for the link. I knew there should be a quarantine period to look out for illness but I only did it for two days before I put the maran in the teens' pen, and they share a fence with the big girls run. Eeek..... Well I'll keep my fingers crossed everyone stays ok.
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tjo804 said:
You are welcome
I will cross mine for you as well
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Thank you!
So then I have a question, if you know or can point me in the right direction. We are brooding the Leghorn boys and one little Wyandotte in our garage currently (they are a week old tomorrow). They'll have their own tractor/run while they grow out and we'll let the Wyandotte stay with them until it's time for them to go to camp, as they say, but then we'll need to move Wyatt/Wynona over to the coop with the Orpingtons. How would we go about doing that introduction since they are really kept rather far apart? Do I just need to mainly worry about them sorting out the pecking order or would illness be something I should watch for since they will have been kept so segregated they may have different germs??
 
A tractor is good! I would not worry about disease so much in your own birds if they are not exposed to anything out side your area. but once the tractor empties out I would move it next to or around the other coop and just let them talk to each other while keeping the littles safe from the bigger Ladies. once they are close to same size then you can put them together. But make sure you do this when you have time to watch in case of injury you can treat or separate the bully if needed.

I found this article helpful when I introduced the first time and was reviewing it myself just to be safe when my littles get bigger.
http://fresheggsdaily.com/2012/04/adding-to-established-flock-pullet.html
 
Great, ok that makes sense. Thanks for sharing that article too, that makes it seem less daunting! Right now we have the 6 week old BOs, and the Delware and Maran roosters all in a half moon shaped grow out pen that butts up to the run for the big girls so they can get familiar though it'll be quite awhile yet before we try to move anybody in.
I'm also eagerly awaiting our first eggs, our ranger pullets are 15 weeks old and three of the four recently grew combs and wattles overnight and they are turning quite red in the face. So, soon it seems! So exciting!
 

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