Hi. Impulse buy of 4 chicks mid-June. The photo is when they were about 1 week old. I believe now they are exactly 6 weeks old. I did leave them in a dog crate like 1 hour at a time when they were little to meet the Bigs. The Littles don't like being handled because I kept putting them in a cardboard box to carry them in and out from the incubator, then moving them around to the crate and the other daytime enclosure to stretch their legs more as they got bigger. They are outdoors in a predator proof container, doing well! But not really tame.
A little confused about the intros. The problem is, the Littles are in a predator-proof cage separate from, and not adjacent to, the chicken yard/chicken tractor, and neither can be moved because of the dog, etc. I can't see keeping the 4 in a crate during the day because they're too big for it. It's going to have to be a "throw them in the deep end" type of introduction. I will study this more on these threads, but can you also give me some straight advice - when and how is this going down?
A little confused about the intros. The problem is, the Littles are in a predator-proof cage separate from, and not adjacent to, the chicken yard/chicken tractor, and neither can be moved because of the dog, etc. I can't see keeping the 4 in a crate during the day because they're too big for it. It's going to have to be a "throw them in the deep end" type of introduction. I will study this more on these threads, but can you also give me some straight advice - when and how is this going down?