Separating and Reuniting Chicks?

[LarissaCluck]

So at two weeks old my eight chicks are already outgrowing their brooder box and are filling up their water container with shavings like 3 times a day. So i moved half of them to another small cage in an effort to cut down on traffic a little.

I am acquiring a larger coop to put them in when they are a bit older until the are big enough to move into the big chicken coop. Do you think their reunion in a few weeks will produce a lot of fighting and injury?

Maybe I should find something bigger to keep them all together in...

 

[redfeather]

I really don't think so.

Chicks seem fairly amiable while still young. I don't think there will be any problems if they are reintroduced at 6 weeks old or so. Especially if the number of birds in each "group" is fairly even.

What you wouldn't want would be to only take like 2 or 3 birds out of a group of 10-15 and then put them back several weeks later.