akchickenman
Chirping
I am in the process of introducing a new chicken and am seeing behavior that I didn't expect. The new hen is replacing a young 5 month old Cockerel who was in the middle of the pecking order as far as I could tell. I only have 3 chickens so removing one is 33% of the flock. The new bird has been in a kennel next to the run for 2 weeks. Today I tried to put the new hen in the coop which is when the unexpected behavior happened. Instead of the old birds pecking at the new one, the new one went after the old birds. Is this normal? Is there anything I could do or should I just let it happen provided there is no blood drawn?