Integrating new chicks, to young flock.

[2MorrowsDream]

I would house them side by side for 2-3 weeks, and than start seeing how they do mingling. It will probably initially be chaos and last a few minutes before you say enough. By the time they are that age, 2-4 weeks, the younger ones should be pretty mobile.

That's what I did, and it worked perfectly. When I was ready to put them all together (after being only separated by chicken wire for 2 weeks) I let them all out for the day. At first they stayed away, but as the day went on, they started to flock together. By roosting time they were all together.

 

[Dieselmunkey]

Just an update, I put a walkway down to below the rabbit hutch. Put up wire around the bottom basically adding another level to the chicks domain. Lots of curiosity from the other birds, so far so good, didn't take the chicks long to figure out how to get up and down.

 

[Dieselmunkey]

What i added to the chicks space. Will later just add 2 pvc tube sections only they can fit thru, to allow them to explore and return.

 

[aart]

Fantastic!