Integrating young chicken with older chickens

[aimeemarie01]

Unfortunately last week all but one of my chickens were killed by a fox when they got out. I know that chickens get depressed in low numbers so I found two farms that sell chickens. However, one farm only sells chicks and the other only sells two year old chickens. The chicken I have left is 12 weeks old and we are redoing the room that I keep the chick incubator in so there isn't anywhere to keep chicks so I had to buy adults. I am going to pick them up tomorrow but I didn't know if the older chickens would be too mean to my young chicken. If anyone has any ideas on what I can do to make things go smoothly that would be greatly appreciated thank you!

 

[Pork Pie]

It may be a bit of a rough ride at first for your original girl. Check out these links

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1015820/reintegration-by-supervised-visits#post_15742910

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/adding-to-your-flock

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/introducing-a-single-hen-to-an-existing-flock (the reverse situation for you, but the principle is the same)


https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/introducing-new-chickens-using-the-see-but-don-t-touch-method

CT

 

[aimeemarie01]

It may be a bit of a rough ride at first for your original girl. Check out these links [COLOR=E4AF09]https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1015820/reintegration-by-supervised-visits#post_15742910[/COLOR]

[COLOR=E4AF09]https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/adding-to-your-flock[/COLOR]

[COLOR=E4AF09]https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/introducing-a-single-hen-to-an-existing-flock [/COLOR](the reverse situation for you, but the principle is the same)

[COLOR=E4AF09]https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/introducing-new-chickens-using-the-see-but-don-t-touch-method[/COLOR] [COLOR=E4AF09]CT[/COLOR]

Thank you! I'll look at these today

 

[Pork Pie]