Integration pains

[debid]

This group is taking EONS compared to last time. Last batch was in with the adults by 7 weeks, roosting like they belonged. This batch is 8 & 9 weeks and hasn't been brave enough to enter the hen house yet. Ugh! The cream legbar in charge (aka murder-on-the-mind) has not helped the situation. Each time she passed the littles whether out in the open or in the run space, she'd chase and peck hard, sometimes pull a feather.

Today is the first day she hasn't driven them out of the run space when she noticed them in there.

Baby steps.

 

[debid]

All the rest have accepted them, it's literally just one hen. If she doesn't get over herself, she's going to find herself housed in the baby coop all alone. I hate to do it because then she's away from the nest boxes but this is ridiculous.