Pullet with broody hen

[Jjdesmo11]

Would it be a disaster to put a 3 month old serama hen with a broody bantam hen. I’m rehoming a serama cockerel but can’t give up my sweet serama pullet. I plan to add her to my bantam flock in the future but trying to avoid stressing her too much and I wait till my birds are older to put on soil. I also have a broody bantam Cochin hen sitting on eggs who I plan to relocate to a smaller “prefab” coop ( she’s currently in with the bantam flock) would this be a recipe for disaster for my pullet? Thanks

 

[chickentrains]

yeah that wouldn't work. You need freshly hatched babies for a broody hen to accept.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

Would it be a disaster to put a 3 month old serama hen with a broody bantam hen. I’m rehoming a serama cockerel but can’t give up my sweet serama pullet. I plan to add her to my bantam flock in the future but trying to avoid stressing her too much and I wait till my birds are older to put on soil. I also have a broody bantam Cochin hen sitting on eggs who I plan to relocate to a smaller “prefab” coop ( she’s currently in with the bantam flock) would this be a recipe for disaster for my pullet? Thanks

No, that wouldn't work -- a broody hen will only accept fluffy little chicks. Your Serama girl is a few months too old and is too big for it to work, unfortunately.

 

[Jjdesmo11]

No, that wouldn't work -- a broody hen will only accept fluffy little chicks. Your Serama girl is a few months too old and is too big for it to work, unfortunately.

Thanks for your response I know that though. I mean so my 3 month old pullet isn’t in a coop alone so as company for her. As long as she wouldn’t attack the chicks that hatch.

 

[aart]

I mean so my 3 month old pullet isn’t in a coop alone so as company for her. As long as she wouldn’t attack the chicks that hatch.

The broody would not be happy with a 'strange' bird in her space, it may even break her broodiness.

I plan to add her to my bantam flock in the future but trying to avoid stressing her too much and I wait till my birds are older to put on soil.

How old are these birds..and where do they reside now?
I'd start integrating the serama and the bantams now by putting them in separate but adjacent enclosures.

 

[Jjdesmo11]

The broody would not be happy with a 'strange' bird in her space, it may even break her broodiness.



How old are these birds..and where do they reside now?
I'd start integrating the serama and the bantams now by putting them in separate but adjacent enclosures.

Oh no I definitely don’t want that. They do not currently reside in the same coop. The broody is about a yr old and pullet about 3 months. Trying to avoid getting a friend for her

 

[Mrs. K]

At 3 months, I would put her with the bantams now.

 

[aart]

pullet about 3 months. Trying to avoid getting a friend for her

How old are the bantams?

I'd start integrating the serama and the bantams now by putting them in separate but adjacent enclosures.

 

[Jjdesmo11]

The other bantams are about a yr old. I just don’t want her to be bullied.

 

[aart]

The other bantams are about a yr old. I just don’t want her to be bullied.

She'll have to be integrated carefully.
Keep her in an adjacent but separate enclosure.
Maybe add the most docile older bird in with her after a week,
mix and match until you get one that will get along.
After a week of that, add another.

This might help;
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/introducing-a-single-hen-to-an-existing-flock.71997/