Need help to learn how to "Think like a CHICKEN"

[bean oller]

I have a beautiful Buff, sweet as pie! I have a Plymouth Rock, a bit sketchy but I love my Dottie. I also have a Black Sex link, now this lovley lady be CRAZY!!
I have 2 new porcelain d'uccle bantams, Laverne and Shirley, and my sex link, Effie, will give these two no peace! I have seperated the coop so they can see but not touch. My newbies are pullets and its been a week and 1/2 and I tried to free range the new girls, whom are super timid, and they pretty much stayed inside. then I let the rest of the girls out, who love to run, so funny to watch, out but Effie went directly for Laverne and Shirley.
I kept my eye on this, the newbies flew to a perch and didnt eat or drink all day for fear of death by pecking. At dark I put the newbies inside the coop hoping when morning came they would all be ok...
nope, when I went to check the newbies were on the perch with what looked like to me, im no expert, hence the thread, like dried blood sports on their lovley porcelain feathers.
Help, advice, too soon to co-mingle???

 

[FrankHomestead]

I have a beautiful Buff, sweet as pie! I have a Plymouth Rock, a bit sketchy but I love my Dottie. I also have a Black Sex link, now this lovley lady be CRAZY!!
I have 2 new porcelain d'uccle bantams, Laverne and Shirley, and my sex link, Effie, will give these two no peace! I have seperated the coop so they can see but not touch. My newbies are pullets and its been a week and 1/2 and I tried to free range the new girls, whom are super timid, and they pretty much stayed inside. then I let the rest of the girls out, who love to run, so funny to watch, out but Effie went directly for Laverne and Shirley.
I kept my eye on this, the newbies flew to a perch and didnt eat or drink all day for fear of death by pecking. At dark I put the newbies inside the coop hoping when morning came they would all be ok...
nope, when I went to check the newbies were on the perch with what looked like to me, im no expert, hence the thread, like dried blood sports on their lovley porcelain feathers.
Help, advice, too soon to co-mingle???

I'm very new myself but I would say they definitely need more time separated. maybe a cpl more weeks

 

[TattooedChicks]

It may be difficult to raise bantams with standard breed hens as they will be at a disadvantage and get picked on, especially if they weren't raised together early on. D'Uccles, especially the porcelains, tend to be very small, low pecking order/ loner birds anyways.

Would be best to separate them for several weeks so they can see one another and get used to the new birds without being able of touching them. Otherwise build a separate coop for the bantams or an area they can squeeze into that the big girls can't for food and water.

 

[christwodog]

I'm in the same boat with my pullets, getting ready to move them into the big coop. They've been free ranging together for about 2 weeks now, there has been some brief chasing, but nothing too drastic. I plan to let the young ones move into the coop this weekend, but I am afraid of my one Barred Rocks, Helga, she's not too fond of the new ones. No blood as been drawn as of yet, so I'm hoping the 2 weeks of co-free ranging has been sufficient. But I will have to put my rooster in rooster jail for a couple of days, he is just too aggressive with them (thru the wire!) for my taste. Any ideas how much lower I should put the roosting bar for the new ones?