Integrating my buff Brahma with the others

[MamaBelle5]

My one roo is friendly with her, but he's bullied by the other roo, so they're they outcasts together.

For just over the last month, I've had her in a large dog kennel beside their run, and in a dog carrier in the coop at night. When I'm outside I let them free range together. She and the one roo wander off on their own, an avoid the others, the others don't really go after her any more. Yesterday I tried to get her to go in the run with the rest, but she hung back and didn't want to go on on her own, so I put her back in the kennel. The other day while they were free ranging, she took a dirt bath near the middle of the pecking order hens in my flock and they didn't trouble each other.

I don't want to keep her separated any longer than I have too because she has such small space quarantined. If I put her kennel in the run, would that help? or not?

 

[Mrs. K]

What I would suggest is to lock the others out of the run, and put her in it alone for several hours, letting her explore both the run and the coop. Then as close to dark as possible, I would let the others in.

I might do this for two days, letting the outside girls in a bit earlier but still close to dark the second or even third night.

I am assuming that the run has hide outs, multiple feeders, and other clutter. Sometimes I will give everything a good brooming out, and rearrange things in the run too.

Mrs K