Trio
Chirping
- Apr 25, 2015
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Back story. I was at a chook auction 2 months ago. I came home with a polish rooster. My husband was not impressed and I scrambled to get a pen together. My 3yr old son and I totally fell in love with him. He would fly up and perch in the window sill while I did the washing up. Follow us around the yard and hand out.
Then I saw 3 polish hens for sale on a buy swap sell site. I grabbed them. I was thinking of hatching some chicks out, just like I used to do as a kid. I still remember sneaking down to the chook shed after dark with my dad and sneaking a look at the eggs under a broody hen with a torch.
Then with a bit of reading I discover polish are a non sitting breed. Heartbroken. I desperately want to see little chicks under a mum hen again. So we go to the next auction which was last Sunday and manage to snag what I think is a splash silkie. She is gorgeous! I kept her apart from the other hens for a bit, but she was just so lonely, I let her wander around the coop for a bit of company.
Spike the rooster was very interested in her and was pacing the wire.
The next day I let her into a big run with a middle order hen. Who instantly homes in on her and bails her up against the fence, at which point I seperate her out again.
I haven't tried a reintroduction since, till today when it happened by accident. The temporary diving barrier fell down and spike the rooster was in with her and had her pegged down in a corner and was continually pecking her. My neighbour called out to me from her backyard and I rushed in and pulled her out. Poor little thing only had a few spots of blood on her comb but I feel horrible for her.
So this is my plan. 'Operation get along'
First step, I have brought another silkie pullet. I am going to put the two silkies together in a run next to the polish run. They will stay there till the new yard arrives. Then I will transfer them and midnight to the new yard at night, which will be out if site of the remaining two polish hens and rooster. Hopefully they get along and I will leave them a week. Then I will introduce another hen, leave for a week. Then the last hen and leave for a week.
Then I plan to move all the hens back into the proper coop and move out the rooster to the temporary coop. Out of site of the hens. Give it a week and the reintroduce him. I just can't believe how mean he was.
So is this a plan that could work? Any way I could tweak it ? I plan to do all the adding at night so they wake up together.
Please help.
Then I saw 3 polish hens for sale on a buy swap sell site. I grabbed them. I was thinking of hatching some chicks out, just like I used to do as a kid. I still remember sneaking down to the chook shed after dark with my dad and sneaking a look at the eggs under a broody hen with a torch.
Then with a bit of reading I discover polish are a non sitting breed. Heartbroken. I desperately want to see little chicks under a mum hen again. So we go to the next auction which was last Sunday and manage to snag what I think is a splash silkie. She is gorgeous! I kept her apart from the other hens for a bit, but she was just so lonely, I let her wander around the coop for a bit of company.
Spike the rooster was very interested in her and was pacing the wire.
The next day I let her into a big run with a middle order hen. Who instantly homes in on her and bails her up against the fence, at which point I seperate her out again.
I haven't tried a reintroduction since, till today when it happened by accident. The temporary diving barrier fell down and spike the rooster was in with her and had her pegged down in a corner and was continually pecking her. My neighbour called out to me from her backyard and I rushed in and pulled her out. Poor little thing only had a few spots of blood on her comb but I feel horrible for her.
So this is my plan. 'Operation get along'
First step, I have brought another silkie pullet. I am going to put the two silkies together in a run next to the polish run. They will stay there till the new yard arrives. Then I will transfer them and midnight to the new yard at night, which will be out if site of the remaining two polish hens and rooster. Hopefully they get along and I will leave them a week. Then I will introduce another hen, leave for a week. Then the last hen and leave for a week.
Then I plan to move all the hens back into the proper coop and move out the rooster to the temporary coop. Out of site of the hens. Give it a week and the reintroduce him. I just can't believe how mean he was.
So is this a plan that could work? Any way I could tweak it ? I plan to do all the adding at night so they wake up together.
Please help.