Introducing young pullets to mature pullets.

[Tblas]

Hello all!
My “baby” chicks are roughly 13-14 weeks old! They have been in a chicken tractor. My older pullets have been able to scope them out for sometime now. I haven’t introduced them without one of them being behind a fence. My young girls are still smaller than my older girls. But this weekend it is going to be dropping into the 20s, it may possibly snow and their chicken tractor isn’t going to be warm enough for them.
Do you think if i start introductions face to face with them that I can have them in the big coop together by this weekend? I don’t want my big girls to hurt my little girls.
we’ve never had a pecking problem but our older 6 have been together the entire time.
Any and all advice is welcomed!

 

[sourland]

You can try initiating a monitored integration . Provide multiple feeding and watering stations, and hiding stations for the younger birds. Some pecking/fighting will probably happen, but as long as physical injury does not happen let them work things out Good luck.

 

[Tblas]

another question- should I switch them to an all flock feed and just give my older girls calcium when I give them treats??

 

[Tblas]

You can try initiating a monitored integration . Provide multiple feeding and watering stations, and hiding stations for the younger birds. Some pecking/fighting will probably happen, but as long as physical injury does not happen let them work things out Good luck.

Thank you! I will try it out

 

[The Happster]

another question- should I switch them to an all flock feed and just give my older girls calcium when I give them treats??

If you can do that, that would be excellent.
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