New additions

[MenachemEliyahu]

I got some Rhode Island Red chicks on Friday. A few is going to family but we’re keeping 5. I was planning to build a holding pen for them in the coop so they’ll interact safely with the existing chickens, but my plans fell through yesterday and now the weather is not cooperating.

 

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Congrats on the chicks!!
You might also use a piece of chicken wire, and fence off a small area for the chicks to eat, drink, and be safe from the big hens.
Make sure to cut a minimum of 2 small openings, so that the chicks can run in and out if the ‘safe space’ to help them integrate better. If you’d like!

 

[MenachemEliyahu]

Congrats on the chicks!!
You might also use a piece of chicken wire, and fence off a small area for the chicks to eat, drink, and be safe from the big hens.
Make sure to cut a minimum of 2 small openings, so that the chicks can run in and out if the ‘safe space’ to help them integrate better. If you’d like!

I plan to. The other two hens are leghorns. I introduced the chicks to them yesterday and they seemed either to be sizing them up to trying to determine whether or not they are food.

 

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I plan to. The other two hens are leghorns. I introduced the chicks to them yesterday and they seemed either to be sizing them up to trying to determine whether or not they are food.

I also have leghorns, and chicks, and my leghorns act scared of the chicks!

Last year, I did the chick safe pen and one of my hens became a mother to my chicks. I’m hoping that same hen will adopt these new chicks!