Thanks to all the advice on here I have almost completely integrated my 2 now 12 week old chicks (got at 4 weeks) with my 2 year hen. They free range together during the day l although rarely as a group of 3. They also all take themselves to bed together at night and sleep together quite happily in their eglu. However as you can see from the web link below (I don't currently have a photo of mine) the run for the the eglu is only 2m x 1m and they won't behave in the run together. Normally I would shut them in to mow the grass, and obviously they are in there until I let them out in the mornings. Once in the run my hen Pepper clucks continuously very loudly and pecks and chases the chicks back to the bedroom.
I've had to start locking them all in the bedroom ( where they don't argue) until I let them out first thing in the morning and to mow the grass I keep Pepper in her run and out the chicks in another makeshift run. Any ideas how to help them behave together in the run?
This would be less of an issue if I wasn't going away for two weeks in a few weeks time. I have friends lined up to look after the chickens but it's a big ask to go from please check their food and water, remove eggs and let them out for a bit if you can, to please come and let them out by 7.30 latest, every day and lock them back up after 9.30 once they have gone to bed.
https://www.omlet.co.uk/shop/chicken_keeping/eglu_go/f/01ec85780e95f45a5dca04c0de6e56fc/
I've had to start locking them all in the bedroom ( where they don't argue) until I let them out first thing in the morning and to mow the grass I keep Pepper in her run and out the chicks in another makeshift run. Any ideas how to help them behave together in the run?
This would be less of an issue if I wasn't going away for two weeks in a few weeks time. I have friends lined up to look after the chickens but it's a big ask to go from please check their food and water, remove eggs and let them out for a bit if you can, to please come and let them out by 7.30 latest, every day and lock them back up after 9.30 once they have gone to bed.
https://www.omlet.co.uk/shop/chicken_keeping/eglu_go/f/01ec85780e95f45a5dca04c0de6e56fc/