My SSH trio are getting along fine with the other bantams. I find that usually the birds and this is with all the breeds now that I have come in contact with are so many types that some of them are flighty and even more so particularly when they are changed in their surroundings. Or if they are too tightly confined by space and lack handling. Others can be so docile...makes you wonder whats wrong!
If you got a predator problem, they can be acting on one extreme or the other.. one very nervous or very docile...must be depending on where they think the bad guy is!!
Right now we have so many birds that all of them are not pets and some do not get handled at all though they all are inspected daily. I see in some no difference over some that are handled and the chickens are just being chickens!
I suspect when the two newbies come, I will have some "sibling" rivalry amongst the flock! But would hope it simmers down in time!
Chickens sometime can be nasty to each other and get out for blood. Just the nature of the beast, but just like anything else, itis natures way of managing the herd!
With newbies we try to quarantine them for their first couple days just to get to know them before they go to the flock. And also to be sure things are healthy on arrival.
Good luck.. for what that is worth, just my 2c!
PASOCHICKEN
I live in NEPA so the closer the better I feel. But I guess at this point I would concitter any where that would ship them.
