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[clongmoor]

Hi, I am thinking of adding 1 pol chicken to our flock of two - I have seen a gorgeous yellow and black one at local farm place - I think it is a buff sussex. Could someone please point me in the right direction for the guide to introducing new chickens - I can't seem to find it on the website. Any of your own advice would of course be very welcome too!

 

Claire

 

Rosie and Priscilla

[Janty]

Can you manage to introduce two as it can be more difficult to introduce a single hen?

 

viewtopic.php?f=42&t=25886&view=unread#unread

 

This link should help.

 

Jan

[eggypeggy]

I was advised not to add 1 chook to 2 chooks.. at least add 2 chooks.

 

I recently added 2 chooks and it was a bit hairy at first I wouldn't like to have just added 1. I think there's a section under FAQ's about adding POL's to an existing flock.

 

If I were to do it again I would have gone for 3 chooks... The amount of time and effort involved in introductions.. you might as well do a few at a time.

 

Anyway good luck.. if you have anymore questions definately ask.. there is always very good advice on here.

[chooklady]

I recently introduced 2 chooks to my existing 6. It took 3 weeks before they were happy to be in the run together.

I'd get 2 if I were you.

[Egluntyne]

Definitely not a good idea to add one to two.

 

Have a look at **these articles** for some info on managing intros.

[alih]

I added 2 to 2 and did it very slowly as per the advice on the excellent threads. I wouldn't in all honesty add 1 to 2. My optimum number at the time was 3 but i ended up with 4 for this reason and am very glad i did. i added an extension to the eglu run and they ranged a lot anyway so it was fine once they had settled in - about 3 weeks...

[clongmoor]

Thank you all for the excellent advice. I'm so glad you all said add two because I actually did see two I wanted and now can tell my husband that you all think we should get two more too! I think it will be after xmas now so it gives me time to get an extra house sorted and buy some gentian violet. If I'm not careful I can see me accidently buying another eglu and ending up with 8 girls! It certainly is addictive this chicken keeping. Thanks again for the advice - the articles are excellent. All the best

 

Claire Rosie and Cilla

[Egluntyne]

If I'm not careful I can see me accidently buying another eglu and ending up with 8 girls! l

 

Easily done!

[abwsco]

Thank you all for the excellent advice. I'm so glad you all said add two because I actually did see two I wanted and now can tell my husband that you all think we should get two more too! I think it will be after xmas now so it gives me time to get an extra house sorted and buy some gentian violet. If I'm not careful I can see me accidently buying another eglu and ending up with 8 girls! It certainly is addictive this chicken keeping. Thanks again for the advice - the articles are excellent. All the best

 

Claire Rosie and Cilla

 

Oooh, if you're going to get an extra house definately get more than two new ones Four is a nice number

 

Seriously though we've introduced two that were already laying to six. They were integrated within a couple of weeks and more recently we've added four 12 week olds. That took longer obviously but they're all settled now, with just the odd bit of pecking.