Is it alright to keep this chicks with 2 week old ones

[Ionut Minea]

 

[SurferchickinSB]

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Those look like day-old’s, if you are going to put them in the same brooder, make sure you put up a piece of hardware cloth in between the two different groups and after a week or so you can let the wire down. They should be used to each other in that time and not pick on each other. The little ones will also have grown enough so that they will not be easily harmed by the larger ones. Two week olds can really harm or kill day olds with just a few pecks or trample them. The little ones will need to be kept a little warmer also, so put the light a little bit more on their side. After a while they should settle down and snuggle up to each other through the wire as they become accustomed to each other.

 

[ultimatejimmy]

I'm doing it now. Just got some chicks in the mail a few days ago and successfully integrated with chicks exactly two weeks older. There was a little pecking the first day from one of the older chicks, but everyone gets along great now.

 

[yickenscarf23]

I just today tried to mix a day old with 10 day olds and it didn't work out at all. Just try the see & don't touch method and take it veryyyy slow.

 

[CindyinSD]

I have 7 chicks around 3 weeks old and 20 something chicks plus 18 poults I just got this Friday night from the post office. I’d like to put the olders in the grow-out coop tomorrow and add the littles into the same coop with them in maybe a week (with heat of course). I’m not sure about the poults, but the chicks for sure. (The growout is 4x8’

I’m thinking that the overwhelming numbers of littles maybe might protect them from the 7 bigs. Has anyone done this?

 

[Ionut Minea]

View attachment 1771319 I did the see and no touch

 

[yickenscarf23]

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Looks great! Hopefully they'll be a happy, well integrated flock in no time