Unsecure chicken perches

[koo2cat]

Hi everyone,

We collected our 3 new Cotswold Legbars 4 weeks ago and they have settled in nicely. They are around 22 weeks old now and growing well, starting to get red faces and combs now. They have been in a seperate eglu and run up against the main chicken cube and run so that they could see the old girls and the old girls could see them.

 

I was wondering when to put them all in together? The grass is now getting very manky where the new girls are and I could really do with having them altogether soon. They have done some free ranging together and seemed ok apart from the odd peck which I would expect. The newbies seem to just be afraid of the oldies and won't go near them

 

Do I just bite the bullet or wait a bit longer?

 

Any thoughts?

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Four weeks is a fair amount of time for them to have got used to each other. I'd give it a go but be prepared to revert back to them being separated if necessary!

[not enough chickens]

i bit the bullet today and introduced my babys to the big girls, have been in a similar set up to urs, for the past month, seeing each other etc let themm out all together today in the big run and they got on really well, better then i expected, big girls wernt really bothered by them except hetty she was a bit of a bully but still not that bad, just keep a eye on them

[tracyann]

You have done that the right way. That's the way I always do my intros is to let them see each other and then let them go for it. They have to sort out a pecking order between them all, but just leave them longer each time you let them free range. They will be fine!!