MY HENS ARE FIGHTING help!

[brit57]

I did everything I thought you are supposed to do....I set up a run next to the original girls and put my barred rocks next to the girls for a good coulple of days. Everything seemed to be going good so I decided to merge the rocks and my original hens. Now my original hens are picking on the barred rocks! I dont know what to do does anyone have any advice??! The roo didnt get put in with the other hens he went back to his coop...

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

They will pick on each other for a little while until they get the dominance structure figured out. As long as they aren't relentlessly chasing, picking bald, or drawing blood I wouldn't worry about it. They will adjust in their own time.

 

[gritsar]

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Ditto. Not drawing blood, let them work it out.

 

[brit57]

Thanks guys..I was worried that it just wasnt going to work at all since the hens werent as welcoming as I expected them to be they love the dogs, the rabbits everything but other chickens I guess. All I can do now is wait it out. My austrolorp "Janice" took a good few feathers out of one of the barred rocks. Hopefully they all learn to coexist. -fingers crossed-