Hi from South Africa!

[AndyCap]

Good Day all.

My name is Andy and i am a first time chicken owner. We have an adopted hen (not sure about the breed) and four lovely pekin bantam hens. i have had problems trying to integrate them (see here https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/658305/how-to-integrate-an-only-child#post_8882433), but am thrilled and fascinated by our new girls.

I love the girls and spend hours outside watching them/ being around them.

Here is the unknown breed as a chick, a breeder thinks it may be a cross between black australope, RIR and a local breed called Potch Koekoek




Here she is now



And the new Pekins

 

[gmendoza]

Good Day all.

My name is Andy and i am a first time chicken owner. We have an adopted hen (not sure about the breed) and four lovely pekin bantam hens. i have had problems trying to integrate them (see here https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/658305/how-to-integrate-an-only-child#post_8882433), but am thrilled and fascinated by our new girls.

I love the girls and spend hours outside watching them/ being around them.

Here is the unknown breed as a chick, a breeder thinks it may be a cross between black australope, RIR and a local breed called Potch Koekoek




Here she is now



And the new Pekins

from South Carolina!

 

[1muttsfan]

Hi and welcome to BYC from northern Michigan

You might try socializing her with just one of the other hens first, then adding them both into the bigger group.

 

[Kevin565]

 

[DDNONIN2016]

Hello and welcome from Ohio....so glad you joined

 

[RedIII]

Welcome! Very pretty girls you have there. I had kind of wondered if your little rescue hen was Koekoek, too, but she could certainly have Australorp in her. What is the size different between her and your Pekins? Sometimes, if one chicken is smaller, the others will pick on it. I've noticed that the same holds true when mixing "teens" and adults. The teen chickens can get picked on.

 

[4-H chicken mom]

Hi and from Ohio. So glad you joined. Very nice looking birds.

 

[The Red Rooster]

Welcome to BYC from the Black Hills!

 

[CorinneP]

sure looks like she could have some black australope in her .. but I think sometimes you never know for sure ..~Corinne from NY

 

[AndyCap]

Thanks guys and gals, hope to be around and learn a lot from everyone. The adopted girl is the same size as the others, not as fluffy though. She is slowly getting used to the bantams though, and ate with them very briefly for the first time