Introducing a new chick to your chicks that have been in the bin for a week or so

[Makjo]

Hello. I have four bantam chicks and I LOVE them. But I am curious on how to introduce a new baby in the bin. The bantams are a week and a half old. And the new chick is a couple of days old but is a standard easter Egger. I have only seen articles on how to introduce your chicks to an older flock but wanted to know how to do it with a younger flock as they are all just fuzzy babies still. Thanks!

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

With chicks, they've very easy to add new ones in. Last year, I had some two week old chicks and added in some few days old chicks. They mixed in quite well with very little issues. Most they'll do is try to be taller than the others, which is how they decide the pecking order at that age.

As far as bantams to standards, that might be a different story depending on size of the standard. If the standard is about their size, I wouldn't be too concerned because it's just her. But, if you had several standards, then they could accidentally trample your bantam chicks.

 

[NatJ]

Hello. I have four bantam chicks and I LOVE them. But I am curious on how to introduce a new baby in the bin. The bantams are a week and a half old. And the new chick is a couple of days old but is a standard easter Egger. I have only seen articles on how to introduce your chicks to an older flock but wanted to know how to do it with a younger flock as they are all just fuzzy babies still. Thanks!

Introduction for chicks of that age is usually very simple: put the new chick in the bin. Watch what happens, and enjoy how cute the chicks are.

Exceptions would be:
--newly hatched chicks that cannot walk well yet (first day or two)
--a few small chicks with more big chicks (danger of being trampled)
--sick or injured chicks
--on rare occasions, a chick that looks much different than the rest will get picked on enough to be a problem. But if you watch for the first few minutes, and check on them at intervals after that, you can usually catch that before it gets too serious. I don't think that will be a problem with the ones you mentioned.