introducing new chickens to the coop

donkee1

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Nov 18, 2010
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We have five girls that are about 3 years old, I just acquired 9 more hens about a year old -- any suggestions on introducing them -- -ended up seperating them because they were fighting... didn't dare to leave them all in the coop tonight so the old girls are loose in the barn .
 
We have five girls that are about 3 years old, I just acquired 9 more hens about a year old -- any suggestions on introducing them -- -ended up seperating them because they were fighting... didn't dare to leave them all in the coop tonight so the old girls are loose in the barn .
That is almost always the problem. Your hens are a flock and the new girls are looked at as a threat. What works best is separate them in the same space. Where they see each other but can't get at each other. After a week or so they will be accepted.
 

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