Xerocles
Songster
Ok. Not exactly "flocks" . I am thinking of adding two birds to my existing group of 6.
YOU FOLKS ON BYC ARE INCREDIBLE! Six months ago, I would have brought them home and tossed them in with the other birds! I was so naive.
Anyhow, quarentine, as I understand it from BYC. Runs over 100 yards apart. Separate everything, food storage, feeders, water source, the works. Wash hands between visits to runs. Then if alls well, introduction in a run inside the run for beak to beak familiarization.
The question: The newbies will be from different flocks. Realizing if one is sick I could lose both birds. A gamble I am willing to take. I can't do two separate quarentine pens. But what about socialization? Both are new to this run, both disoriented by the relocation. Neither has a home field advantage. I know chickens will do what chickens will do, and that is usually what we humans least expect. But your input. Think it will be a smooth transition? Or a disaster? Chickens will be approximately same size, young hens/old pullets.
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YOU FOLKS ON BYC ARE INCREDIBLE! Six months ago, I would have brought them home and tossed them in with the other birds! I was so naive.
Anyhow, quarentine, as I understand it from BYC. Runs over 100 yards apart. Separate everything, food storage, feeders, water source, the works. Wash hands between visits to runs. Then if alls well, introduction in a run inside the run for beak to beak familiarization.
The question: The newbies will be from different flocks. Realizing if one is sick I could lose both birds. A gamble I am willing to take. I can't do two separate quarentine pens. But what about socialization? Both are new to this run, both disoriented by the relocation. Neither has a home field advantage. I know chickens will do what chickens will do, and that is usually what we humans least expect. But your input. Think it will be a smooth transition? Or a disaster? Chickens will be approximately same size, young hens/old pullets.
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