- Oct 13, 2011
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Hi i am new to this forum. We just got our first flock in april (11 hens) they are all healthy girls. We got them at tscn when they were just a couple weeks old. We want to get some more chicks from a friend. They got theirs about 2 weeks after we did at the same tsc. We are looking at getting 11 more. I am worried about adding new girls to the flock. I know we need to quarentine them but i dont know how long. We let our girls free range for about half a day, then they are put into a 16x32 pen where they can still get grass and bugs and then at night we lock them in the coop. I am just worried about adding new girls to the flock. I dont want mine to get sick or to be picked on, and i also really dont know how to do the quarentine. if we put the new ones in a pen and still let our girls free range will they not be able to come in contact with the new chicks through the pen? also our coop is a 4x8 can all 22 chicks stay in the same coop at night?