HouseOfWirshup
Chirping
- Aug 26, 2021
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Ok friends, we need some help.
This is our first flock and we’ve had three girls since last summer who are just about a year old. Two Plymouth rocks and a buff. They are sweet and easy and generally friendly.
We decided to introduce two new girls to the flock a few weeks ago. They are almost the same size, younger about 5 months, and production reds. The two new girls are equally sweet although understandable shy.
We quarantined the new girls, then did a run next to our regular run so they could all see but not touch, then finally moved them into the enclosed run where the coop is in a crate for the night. We’ve been letting them all free range together and they mostly ignore but in the run there is one older girl who’s been not as welcoming as the others. Nothing too bad, no blood and nothing longer than a few seconds but the new girls are scared in there.
My question is this... do we keep putting the new girls in the crate in the run until all the pecking stops or do we just put them all together and let them hopefully go to roost in the coop together tonight?
If it makes any difference, the buff is completely indifferent to the new girls, or speckled rock is broody so she couldn’t care less about them and it’s just the barred rock who’s being a nudge?
Thoughts????? Thanks in advance!
This is our first flock and we’ve had three girls since last summer who are just about a year old. Two Plymouth rocks and a buff. They are sweet and easy and generally friendly.
We decided to introduce two new girls to the flock a few weeks ago. They are almost the same size, younger about 5 months, and production reds. The two new girls are equally sweet although understandable shy.
We quarantined the new girls, then did a run next to our regular run so they could all see but not touch, then finally moved them into the enclosed run where the coop is in a crate for the night. We’ve been letting them all free range together and they mostly ignore but in the run there is one older girl who’s been not as welcoming as the others. Nothing too bad, no blood and nothing longer than a few seconds but the new girls are scared in there.
My question is this... do we keep putting the new girls in the crate in the run until all the pecking stops or do we just put them all together and let them hopefully go to roost in the coop together tonight?
If it makes any difference, the buff is completely indifferent to the new girls, or speckled rock is broody so she couldn’t care less about them and it’s just the barred rock who’s being a nudge?
Thoughts????? Thanks in advance!
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