Adding to existing flock

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If you added little chicks without a mum to defend them, it would probably result in a massacre. If you want to buy in some chicks, you will have to keep them separate until they are at the teenager size. The best thing is to put the new ones in some temporary accommodation next to your existing flock so that they can get to know each other first. You could always get some point of lay birds, but with such a small number of birds it's still wise to keep them separate while they get acquainted. Unfortunately whatever you do there will be scuffles as the new birds are assimilated into the flock.

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(16 December 2013, 17:29)TOF Wrote: If you added little chicks without a mum to defend them, it would probably result in a massacre. If you want to buy in some chicks, you will have to keep them separate until they are at the teenager size. The best thing is to put the new ones in some temporary accommodation next to your existing flock so that they can get to know each other first. You could always get some point of lay birds, but with such a small number of birds it's still wise to keep them separate while they get acquainted. Unfortunately whatever you do there will be scuffles as the new birds are assimilated into the flock.

Varieties don't really matter, however one of the Warrens I had was racist! she hated Black Birds.