I just realized after reading some posts about integrating chickens into a flock, that I have been going about this all wrong. I got to Orpington pullets about half the size of the three that I already had. I kept them in a cage and in a "peck and play" for two weeks or a little longer. Then I set them out and it has been a mess right from the get go. I have been getting after the older hens from going after the pullets. It startles me and I have been scolding them like I did my children when they were little and one was being mean to the others. I should not have interfered. I was about half asleep in the hammock a little while ago and all at once I never heard such squabbling. I threw my empty drink bottle at one of the offenders. I don't know why it took me so long to realize I am interfering with the natural order of things. Makes me ashamed of myself:/:/:/