Bergiejo
Chirping
In advance I'd like to thank you for your advice, ideas, and help!!! Sorry this is a long one 
This will be childrens' first official year taking poultry as a 4H project and they are super excited. I'd say we have some experience with chickens (5 plus years), but with the idea of taking chickens to the fair I feel I'm clueless.
We hatched the chicks beginning of April and currently have 3 pullets and 3 cockerels. We are in the production category and only need 2 pullets to bring to the fair...
So I'm wondering how to go about introducing the cockerels and the one pullet that doesn't make the cut for fair to my existing flock?
They all have been seen and noticed by the others in my flock for quite sometime now (they have a separate tractor in my pasture where all my other ladies come and go throughout the day) so I'm not just tossing them out there, but would it be better to go in pairs of 2 as I introduce them? I have been trying to think of the best way to do this, but hoping for some help in deciding.
I worry they won't catch on to the routine of the existing flock since we have a separate area for them because of the fair project and because I wanted a place to also quarantine them after the fair in case they come home with something too
Wondering if I send out the cockerels at first and keep the little ladies up until the fair, but worry about leaving the one lady behind and I don't want to introduce her alone because I know that would be setting her up for a traumatic experience. Or do I just introduce 2 cockerels and then keep the 3 ladies and one cockerel up until we decide which ladies make the fair and then introduce the cockerel and other lady while we are at the fair?
Again thank you and sorry to ramble on! I really appreciate my chicken people
This will be childrens' first official year taking poultry as a 4H project and they are super excited. I'd say we have some experience with chickens (5 plus years), but with the idea of taking chickens to the fair I feel I'm clueless.
We hatched the chicks beginning of April and currently have 3 pullets and 3 cockerels. We are in the production category and only need 2 pullets to bring to the fair...So I'm wondering how to go about introducing the cockerels and the one pullet that doesn't make the cut for fair to my existing flock?
They all have been seen and noticed by the others in my flock for quite sometime now (they have a separate tractor in my pasture where all my other ladies come and go throughout the day) so I'm not just tossing them out there, but would it be better to go in pairs of 2 as I introduce them? I have been trying to think of the best way to do this, but hoping for some help in deciding.
I worry they won't catch on to the routine of the existing flock since we have a separate area for them because of the fair project and because I wanted a place to also quarantine them after the fair in case they come home with something too
Wondering if I send out the cockerels at first and keep the little ladies up until the fair, but worry about leaving the one lady behind and I don't want to introduce her alone because I know that would be setting her up for a traumatic experience. Or do I just introduce 2 cockerels and then keep the 3 ladies and one cockerel up until we decide which ladies make the fair and then introduce the cockerel and other lady while we are at the fair?
Again thank you and sorry to ramble on! I really appreciate my chicken people
