Skswen
In the Brooder
Hello all,
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This will be my third set chickens. This time though I’m in a situation that I have no experience in! Going to try to make this as short as possible but also provide some background information that might be important.
- My OG (first ten will be 2 in January) I raised in my house for the winter all mix breeds. Everything was pretty easy besides learning the ins and outs of basic chicken keeping.
- Last fall I got sucked in seeing only a few chicks left at local feed store.
- we had to build a new coop (mansion) to fit them all. The coop was safe but needed more work so at the deadline blocked off a section inside coop and added the ten. My OGs stayed at the top of the pecking order kinda got rude lol.
- Got 8 more chicks end of April this year 2 bantams ( I believe Brahmas) Lost one very early on.
- June lost my first chicken as a storm was coming in- following weekend lost 4 more went through cams it was a fox attack, flick needed to reestablish and also had two come into sick bay.
Today/ currently: found out two of 7 chicks I had were cockerels but I already invested so much and decided to at least keep Bear my sweet boy but ended up keeping both because I couldn’t find a home for OWL. I have a temp Coop/run inside the main run.
So here are my questions figured the background might be helpful as to why I’m nervous and also not experienced.
1. All the 7 chicks (approaching 16 weeks so not that little) get along just fine I see some small appropriate pecking in the group. How do I handle having 15 full grown some very large hens and 4 pullets with one tiny bantam?
2. I have decided if I want the Roos to have their own little add on in the coop to provided correct food and protect my hens. Any suggestions?
3. One cockerel my favorite Bear is definitely the main guardian over their group. If I start bringing the girls in the main coop slowly and out of their area will he have a hard time adjusting, with this cause him to be mad, cause tension with the other boy? Basically what to do????
15 hens recently attacked, ONE bantam pullet, 4 EE pullets, 2 boys!! Help!! I don’t want the bantam to get hurt, don’t want the boys going nuts in fact idk what to even do with them haha. Please help me with any advice!
I’m so very sorry for the lengthy post!!
-*Scroll to bottom for just questions no background*
This will be my third set chickens. This time though I’m in a situation that I have no experience in! Going to try to make this as short as possible but also provide some background information that might be important.
- My OG (first ten will be 2 in January) I raised in my house for the winter all mix breeds. Everything was pretty easy besides learning the ins and outs of basic chicken keeping.
- Last fall I got sucked in seeing only a few chicks left at local feed store.
- we had to build a new coop (mansion) to fit them all. The coop was safe but needed more work so at the deadline blocked off a section inside coop and added the ten. My OGs stayed at the top of the pecking order kinda got rude lol.
- Got 8 more chicks end of April this year 2 bantams ( I believe Brahmas) Lost one very early on.
- June lost my first chicken as a storm was coming in- following weekend lost 4 more went through cams it was a fox attack, flick needed to reestablish and also had two come into sick bay.
Today/ currently: found out two of 7 chicks I had were cockerels but I already invested so much and decided to at least keep Bear my sweet boy but ended up keeping both because I couldn’t find a home for OWL. I have a temp Coop/run inside the main run.
So here are my questions figured the background might be helpful as to why I’m nervous and also not experienced.
1. All the 7 chicks (approaching 16 weeks so not that little) get along just fine I see some small appropriate pecking in the group. How do I handle having 15 full grown some very large hens and 4 pullets with one tiny bantam?
2. I have decided if I want the Roos to have their own little add on in the coop to provided correct food and protect my hens. Any suggestions?
3. One cockerel my favorite Bear is definitely the main guardian over their group. If I start bringing the girls in the main coop slowly and out of their area will he have a hard time adjusting, with this cause him to be mad, cause tension with the other boy? Basically what to do????
15 hens recently attacked, ONE bantam pullet, 4 EE pullets, 2 boys!! Help!! I don’t want the bantam to get hurt, don’t want the boys going nuts in fact idk what to even do with them haha. Please help me with any advice!
I’m so very sorry for the lengthy post!!
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