Help! With Chickens of different age!

[VJB24]

Hello! Yesterday I got two new chickens that are 2 months old. I left them in my one coop until now. I just showed them to my two one month old chicks. One of the 2 months old keeps like pecking at the top of my favorite chick. I need help on what to do because now is when I would start putting the 1 month old chicks in the coop but I don't want to because I'm worried that the chick will get hurt. Here is a video of it.


Again if you have any answers on how to solve this it would be a lot of help!!! thanks!

 

[silkielover249]

this happened to me also. what they are trying to do is establish pecking order. what i did was i seperated the run or put them in a eperate place but to where they can still see eachother, but wont be harmed. do this until the 1 month olds can defend them selves.
Hope I helped!
P.S. after doing this, all my chcikens live together and are happy!

 

[VJB24]

this happened to me also. what they are trying to do is establish pecking order. what i did was i seperated the run or put them in a eperate place but to where they can still see eachother, but wont be harmed. do this until the 1 month olds can defend them selves.
Hope I helped!
P.S. after doing this, all my chcikens live together and are happy!

Hmm... Thanks for the comment, but how do you think I should make it so they see each other but can't be harmed?

 

[VJB24]

If I kept the chicks in the run and blocked the coop and nesting boxes off so they had to stay in the run then just let the older ones out and walk around the run... But wouldn't be able to mess with each other? That should work... Right?

 

[Den in Penn]

Keeping the young ones in the run while the older ones have the coop and outside should work. I read post and looked at your video. You may have two problems in addition to the usual introduction ones. Crests tend to attract the non crested attention and so they peck. The second maybe is that the top hen likes to remind the lower ones that she is top when they get attention from you or say a rooster. Being new birds to the flock that may not yet be the problem. Give them time to get to know each other in separation and the integration, then see how it sorts out.