integration emergency!

[Rugerlady]

I just acquired three new hens, a black sex link, an olive egger and an easter egger. These three had been raised together and I thought that introducing them to my existing flock would go okay. Wrong! My ladies beat up my new easter egger! She is terrified and I had to remove her! They picked the top of her head clean of feathers! What should I do? I don't want to get rid of her she is so sweet! Any ideas?

 

[chooks4life]

Did you have them in a run where the new chooks and resident chooks could observe and interact with one another for a week with the safety of having mesh between them? Most badly failed introductions involve putting new stock directly among resident stock without a week's introduction period to allow them to adjust.

Best wishes.