We have chickens!!!

[SheWoff]

Originally Posted by PatDaly

LOL, She, Chickens are terribly Alpha, she will find her pecking order, we have introduced several flocks together, none dead yet.

Well I had to put the roost down on the ground, stand in front of the nesting boxes so she wouldn't just stay in that, and made the white hen mix in with the other chickens yesterday. I must of stood out there an hour! I think they have their pecking order in the works now and the roosters aren't jumping her every time she gets down off of the roost. But, I don't think she is eating. Anything. I know she has had some water because yesterday once she calmed down a little, she headed over to the water bucket and drank out of it like she had been in a desert for a week! I don't know if she will make it or not. I did what I could do to help her out...

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[Martinhouse]

Is there any place you could keep that poor hen for a couple of days so the other birds aren't even aware of her? Even in a large pet carrier with food and water?

Then put her on the roost well after dark. I've had more than one old-timer tell me if the new chickens are there in the morning when they all wake up, they are accepted better. This has worked for me a couple of times.

(I had to pick up the new hens during the day and leave them in the back of the truck until after dark. Yuck, was that a mess!)

Carol

Carol

[SheWoff]

Well I went out into the pen and put the roost down on the ground for awhile again. She seems to have gotten along with the others since she is now getting down off the roost this morning and eating with the others. Even though she is on the outside of the group scratching at the edges, they are at least letting her eat.

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