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HOW TO INTEGRATE CHICKS WITH OLDER HENS | Introducing Baby Chickens To Grown Flock | Prevent Drama
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ส.ค. 2024
- Here are the steps we take to introduce chicks to full-grown hens without bullying or injuries!
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0:00-0:48 - Intro
0:49-2:26 - First Trips Outside
2:27-3:24 - Our Setup
3:25-3:50 - Longer Field Trips
3:51-6:05 - First Introductions
6:06-7:47 - First Sleepover
7:48-10:31 - Free Ranging & Roosting
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My oldest hen loved picking on our “teenage” chicks until we added multiple feeding stations and expanded their run. It seemed as if food aggression was the big problem but now that everyone has several places they can go eat, the gals get along great.
Not seeing the link info for the pens. Thank you.
I used a pack and play we still had from our last child inverted over the chicks so they could explore outside without being exposed to our cat, hawks, etc. It was a good temporary fix in that awkward mid phase with a few chicks.
I love this idea.
Having enough space for everyone is KEY! We live in town and I discovered that since we didn’t have quite enough room for new chicks and older hens, I’ve had to sacrifice a bit of lawn to give them the room they needed. Everyone is much happier and they are learning to get along. 😉
Our new girls were kept in a separate "pen" so they could see each other but not mix. Kept the chance of disease down too. Once we removed the fencing at about ten weeks, they mixed, but the littles kept their distance. They have separate coops so they go their own direction at dark. We'll fully mix them when winter comes. Great video! Cheers from Minnesota!
Great video, pen within a pen is a safe way to introduce store bought chicks. Our first batch of hen hatched chicks were protected by the mother hen and our alpha rooster that watched the hen on eggs for three weeks. When they joined the flock the rooster & hen kept them from being bullied. Plenty of food, water, and room to run = happy chickens.
Hanging the food and water on adjustable chains, allows you to raise food and water to keep it clean. They do like to toss bedding everywhere. :)
You might also keep another water dispenser in a nice shady place, two water supplies less likely to have thirsty hens.
Thanks for all the good information. I’ll be getting my next chicks next week and was worrying how I would integrate them. Great ideas. I do have a 10x10 dog kennel that I can put beside the current one. I’m hoping that will work out. I currently have six chickens about 10 weeks old. I’ll be getting 8 or 9 more.
Blessings 🙏🏻✨😎
I'm just about to introduce my young chicks with adult girls. I leaned several great ideas through this clip. Thank you
Freya is having a great time in the new yard! The puppers have so much space to stretch out in now!
Just what I was looking for I'm going out to introduce my baby chicks fully feathered into the older Birds they've had over a week with only a fence between them thank you so much
We followed your advice and everything worked out great 👍
That is true about lower PO chickens being more unwelcoming
I dont know what it is but I can't stop watching your videos. I'm clearing land and building a coup to have spring chickens. Wish me luck!
How are your chickens doing?
What a delightful video ❤ lots of good info, thanks!
This was a very helpful video, thank you so much. I am introducing my chicks this weekend.
I didn't realize there was an Integration method. I just put 5 teen chicks in with the older 3 hens and everyone was fine. Lucky, I guess?
I have noticed the younger brood hang out together during the day and the older hens have their own clique.
Very lucky. I tried putting them next to each other all day, then put them in the coop while the big ones were sleeping, and I was still woken up by them bullying one of my littles. I had to separate them again, and I am still worried about the little one they tried to beat to death.
Spot on observation about the “bulling order”.. it’s prevalent in all types of animals. 😎🎬
Thanks...lots of good tips and info.
Similar observation, the lower ranking birds can be real meanies. I think it is a case of "finally, I am no longer at the bottom!" and go for it. I try to tell them "you did not like being bullied, you should know better" but they never listen! Three days is certainly an impressive integration, I have always taken a lot longer, minimum seven days.
This is the first year I have two different yards for them: Older chickens in one, and the pullets/cockerels in the other. I love having them seperate while they catch up in size with the mature members. :) I'm impatient to move them into one flock though. :)
Mine have been able to see each other since the littles were 2 weeks. We got a bad heatwave and their chick brooder was located in our porch. During the hottest days the porch reached 99F, several degrees hotter than the outside temperature. So while our other girls didn’t get to outside until they lost all their baby down, these lucky ones got to touch grass early. They have a smaller run set up maybe 4 ft from the big chicken run. So they can see eachother but not interact. In no time at all their old brooder pen (Puppy play pen) became the sleeping quarters and they spent all day outside in run with loud protests if they where stuck inside due to rain (they couldn’t figure out the concept of running for cover under the tarp…). Until one night they all one by one jump-glided out of their sleeping pen and we had to use a sheet on top of it for the night lol. So now they sleep in a dog crate in the coop with the big chickens and are carried out one by one to their run every morning. We still haven’t put them together outside of bedtime though. Our hens aren’t old enough to lay yet so they’re still eating the same feed but that will eventually change so I’m not sure how to handle that but it would be nice if they could make their own way outside every morning.
I built a coupe with chicken wire divider down the middle once 1 months old I moved the babies to their side. 2 months later I've let the big girls out into the yard to forge and the babies into the run to spread their wings and get used to it. After a few days of that I let them out to forage where the big girls were and just made sure they were not picked on too much I know they have to establish a pecking order but it is true what you said the lower on the pecking order of the bigger girls tend to be More bullies to the new chicks on the block. The reason is they are still establishing pecking order they don't want to be at the bottom of the food chain even with the new chicks😂. Also as you said some of the younger chicks will try to bully the older girls. After about a week of this at night when they're all asleep I will move the partition between them and they will all wake up together and go out to the run. I've also found it helps if their roosting branches are about the same height with the pecking order. My old rooster is gone and I intend on introducing a new one there seems to be way less issues with the girls when the rooster is in charge.
you would realy like a pvc chicken play pen...i built one 4 my baby chickens...i made it 10x10 feet..nn it works good nn its easy to move around
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I have a real mess on my hands!
Because of the pressure on supplier's to keep up with their baby chicks, I was buying when I could find chicks.
Ended up with breeds I didn't want, chicks were a few weeks old when I finally found small numbers of the breeds I wanted.
So now I have pullets that are 6 to 8 weeks apart. I had a few get suffocated on cold nights.
My oldest birds have been out of the brooder for three weeks now, but I'm afraid to mix the with the little 6 week old birds.
Fortunately I have three chicken houses that all three have runs.
I have a goofy flock...all but one hen have all moved into my big house, but everyone wants the lay in the medium size house.
But I want to move my youngest chicks into that house. So I closed it off today to force the lone hen to go sleep with the other big hens.
My age composition is all over the map. After a dog climbed over my fence and killed some of my hens. I found some 2 month old pullets.
So my age structure is:
1-
rooster
1- hen...3 years old
1- rooster (bad rooster, another story)
2- hens 1 year old
4- hens 7 months old
Pullets:
4- (IMO) are really two months old
1- 8 week old
3- 6 weeks old
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Thats true @5.40 the weakest hen in the pecking order will bully the younger chicks and take out on them. I have noticed the same thing
Thank you this helps so much, a chick of mine was brutally attacked today and this helped so muh
What about putting older hens in the same coop with my 7 - 8 week old chicks that are already in the coop
Can you do a video on how to convince your parents to get chickens. I really want chickens but my dad says they stink and are too loud.
Ok, honestly they’re not stinky at all!! And I personally don’t think they’re loud…. It just depends on the chicken. I hope your parents get you chickens some day🤞
I convinced my parents by doing tons of research and saying random facts at random times. I told them I would clean up and feed them. I told my mom she wouldn't have to do anything. We got six chickens and I let my mom name one and my dad name one. My brother bought the chickens (you should start looking for coops).Now my mom love researching what food scraps we can give to them! No they don't smell. Good Luck!! P.S always ask to go to stores with chicks in them ;)
@@angiewatts8118 Wow That’s So Cool! I’m glad they got you chickens!!
Our chicken coop and pen don't smell, but the brooder they were in STUNK. If you're keeping it in an out of the way room or garage it's probably not a big deal. I had to have them in my room though. It seems like some chick or other always had a recent cecal poop which smells very strong and lingers. I ran a purifier on high near them and of course scooped it regularly. I don't miss the chick stage, as cute as they were. 😬
Yea they don’t stink at all. But i after the chick brooder can smell because it’s just a small indoor area while they are babies. I love them. They are so sweet and funny. We just started getting eggs a couple weeks ago and i still get excited every time i go look.
Your girls seem so nice and curious. I have 2 chicks and a couple of my girls chase them and are fairly aggressive. So I have them in a similar cage setup in the predator proof coop/run.
I'm planning on removing the chicks cage and providing some cover here and there to encourage a bit. I'll keep an eye on them the first couple of days. But great vid.
One of your baby chicks looks so strange and funny with that hat on her head 😄
My 10 young chicks should be fully feathered a few weeks and depending on the temperature, ready to for the Big Coop. I have 2 hens and a rooster that are 1 year old. Is the integration process the same with a rooster? Are there factors I need to be aware of. The rooster is super protective of his 2 ladies. Any helpful ideas are most welcome. Thanks
This is great video! Thank you so much! I love the little pens! ❤️ We are soon to do this so I am nervous!
Your chickens are so sweet💕💕💕
My chicks went out when the nights hit the mid to upper 60's. Same temps they were happy with on the inside. Two weeks old at the time. My own cage made with 1/2" hardware cloth with no chance of the girls reaching the babies. There was some aggression for a couple of days or so but stopped. I've purposely put feed on the edges of the chick cage in the past week and they are sharing food without any problems. The girls only give them passing notice now other than to stop by and see what they're up to seems like. The chicks now get upset a little when the girls go out in the evenings to free range or when they leave them to go in the coop. Four weeks old now but no interest in letting them out with the girls for a couple more weeks. Just how it's worked out but seems to be going fine.
Wow baby chicks look axing specialty the blue laced wyandotte ❤️ sorry your other male chick passed !
5:47 That might be why. I kind of think it is cause they want to keep their place in the pecking order.
Awwwww!!! They're all just so beautiful and adorable!!! 😍💖💖
If I happen to have a broody hen I'll put fertile eggs or day olds depending how long she's been broody. When the chicks are about a week old and they're fast enough to run away if there's trouble, I'll let mom and chicks out. The other adults learn very quickly not to get too close. Usually within a few days everyone is settled. I haven't had any injuries or deaths this way. Maybe I've been lucky but I've done it quite a few times
Thank you for sharing.
Be well and be safe.
Peace
Last night my gold laced polish slept peacefully on the roost with the big girls I have two Wyandottes red laced and one blue White crested polish and she needed a buddy and it took a few days to buddy up but finally they did and it took two weeks for my Wyandottes to accept the new polish so now I have 4 happy hens my three OGs are 8 months old but the blue polish isn’t laying eggs yet hopefully she will now that she has a buddy
Unfortunately, we have limited space for our chickens. So generally I have to wait until the number of older chickens I have has dwindled down to where I can replace them with new chicks. But I do most of these same steps. The last time I got chicks, I was able to set their brooder up in the chicken pen so the older girls were very familiar with them. When it was time to start opening the door and letting them go in and out of their brooder, it was only a matter of a couple days before they stopped going back into the brooder. While this was a good set up on one hand, it was not an ideal set up as we had to keep the brooder small, so it would fit in the pen and not take too much space from the big girls. So, I am going to get a small prefab coop this summer and set it up in my potager for baby chicks and then just put them in a portable pen in the run when trying to integrate them into the flock. They outgrew the small brooder really fast so I need somewhere a little bigger for them to grow out in.
Thankyou so much!! This really helped me with my chickens
Do you have a video on the noises they make? Love your videos and have learned so much. I have a flock already, they are almost 3 months old and I just got new baby chicks, only a a week or so old. I introduced them safely and the older ones were making noises, nothing to crazy but curious what they mean
I have a rooster. Can this be done the same way even with a rooster? Thank you.
You're right about the "bottom" chicken not liking or bullying the chicks. I guess they just want to take it out on the little ones. I have not integrated mine completely yet but I can tell my Hazel doesn't like them.
I need some advice. I’ve added chicks with my flock and my lowest hen in the order is picking in. My baby silkies. And she seems to go free the babies and then the other chickens join.
Did all of your chicks make it? I saw the video of one not doing good at first
Just wondering I have 6,6 week Polish chick.Im introducing them to 1 Polish rooster and 4 hens. We have a large run and I will put them in a fenced area. Will the rooster be a problem..I don't know the chicks sex yet) He's a friendly Roo.Thanks!
Right now we are working on integrating three different ages of flocks.
I have a bully. She's at the bottom of the pecking order. Not sure what to do. My littles are 17 & 13 weeks old. I've had them side by side for a few weeks now. The Littles will go into the big hen run but then are chased out.
I’m going on 3 weeks and it’s violent. I have a ee who growls and charged at them. I followed every step.
Great video...best one on the topic.
Does anyone have experience with this but also with a rooster? We have chickens that have just started laying (got in May) and then we have new chicks that’s are about 6 weeks. I’m nervous about integrating, not only because of the rooster, but also due to weather. Western KS
I keep running into everybody having about the same amount of new chicks that they are introducing their new chickens to their old flock. How would I do it with 55 new chickens with about 55 old chickens?
Thank you 🙏
Thank you!!!
Hi! Great video. I may have missed it, but do you have any problems keeping the baby chicks out of the older hens' feed? That's the only part I'm trying to figure out. I would love to integrate our chicks with our older hens. Thanks for any help you may have!
air predators are the things worry about the most our chicks are now about 8 weeks old getting pretty good size maybe a third the size of an adult chicken I would love to introduce them to my existing flock but my existing flock free ranges I do have a run that they go into first thing in the morning a little later in the morning I let them out in the yard and they free range everywhere.
the older chickens are fairly sky predator savvy in anything flies over they run for cover I'm worried the new babies won't be quite so intuned to what's going on and I may lose several fairly quick because as I said we do have a lot of hawks I do not understand why they're still protected.
what I might do is when I introduce the babies to the older chicks is keep them in the fenced-in run for the first few weeks but at some point they're going to have to be able to free range with the older chickens.
I will add my older flock is six white leghorns which are extremely skittish to begin with the new babies are a mix of golden comets Isa browns wyandottes and a couple Easter eggs 10 new babies total.
it's kind of a scary time introducing the new babies to A whole New world.
I'm just wondering if you can explain how you move the chicks in the pen, when it doesn't have a floor. I have a little pet clay piano that also doesn't have a floor.
This is my first day when i let the young flock outside the coop. I have 1 big coop separated in the middle. I did that for them to get used to each other. I feel tho they are going to fight 😢
Thank you for your helpful information .
Very nice pens..great video.
My hens aren’t letting the younger ones into the coop, any suggestions??
Hi, I just watched your video and it's so helpful! Thanks You! I have new chicks who are just ready to go outside but they think my house is their coop. I've moved them out into a pen inside the run and plan to ease them into the roost area soon. My questions is: do you leave them in the pen inside the run all day or do you only put them in the pen at night? The only caveat is that this particular group of chicks seems to be VERY skittish. So I've not been letting them out to free range with everyone else until a couple of hours before its roost time and then I put them back into the pen inside the run. Thanks so much for your videos! It has been such a less stressful experience having such a great resource.
Mi 2 older ones, are really aggressive to the 2 new girls, I'm Keeping them separated for now, but it's already a week, and when I put them together, it is just a matter of minutes. How long do it usually takes to get them happy?? 😞
Great video! I think I only saw 6 chicks. Did the Cochin that wasn’t doing well in the previous video not make it? I’m sorry if that’s the case!
I noticed this too. :(
Did you have a adult rooster? I am trying to introduce 12 chicks to my existing 3 hens and 1 rooster.
Hello new to chickens and your videos are so completely helpful. We currently have 10 5ish week old chicks of varying breeds. I am waiting to see confirmation on if we have any roosters or not, we got them from a local farm who said if we do have any to let her know and we can switch them out for hens. My question is since the 10 of them have been together since 2.5 weeks whenever we figured out the roos and switch will the new ones have to be separated since they are still young? And if so how long would you say?
Just watching your chick videos - what happened to the little rooster that wasn't doing well in your last chick video?
What if you don’t have a lot of space?
Interesting.
BTW, has anyone told you you sound like a TV news anchor when you speak (at least here)? 😉
I have a question or two…we have 6 young chickens, hatched in late February. Our daughter needed a home for her last chicken who is laying eggs..she’s possibly 8 - 12 months old. She’s a bit bossy and the youngsters now use the perches in the coop to sleep…she seems to have taken over the nesting boxes. Any advice? Also, she has different food than the younger ones. We had both available for them all and I noticed more “runny” poop ..is she needing to eat her own food and not theirs?
I wonder if anybody can help me. I placed surrogate eggs under a broody, and when two hatched, they were eaten by one of the hens (I don't think it was the surrogate mother since she seemed to be protective of the eggs). I don't know why this happened! Thanks for any help.
Hi Tiny, sorry to hear that. I would say survival instinct and sometimes just how you say a meal easy. I would suggest to maybe only have the brooder mama e eggs alone no outside intervention. Hope this helps you
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Have you mentioned where you get your chicks?
great advice!!
I have been trying to get my new girls mingled with my older flock and it has been a little frustrating. I waited until they were 12 weeks to fully let them out in the yard together (they free range all day). I have 4 older hens and 3 pullets and they are slowing starting to come together but it is going on 3 weeks and they are still sleeping in separate coops and they aren't mingling very well. The pullets are pretty skittish and run away from the older hens. The older ladies are ISA Browns and the younger ones are Easter Eggers. Does anyone have any tips/ideas on how to get them to start co-mingling as well as how to get them to go into the same coop without harm to the pullets?
Had the SAME problem! Had to separate them for awhile. Actually did a hodgepodge of what she talks about, during the days. Unfortunately, during the night, I FINALLY solved putting them in the coop at night (necessary due to raccoons) by putting a third perch in way up near the ceiling. They actually love it up there above the bigger girls who have to stay lower due to their size...just be careful. During a bad storm, I lost a smaller one that I believe fell off the perch. I now have a nightlight in the coop...
How can I tell the difference in pecking order establishment, and bullying? How will I know they're fully integrated. My two flocks seem to stick to themselves, with the bigger girls chasing occasionally. They're about 3 months and 6 weeks old respectively (2 flocks)
Hi Nicole, when your oldest chickens go to bed check who is number 1,2,3 on the roost this will tell you who is boss e second in command. With the 3 month old e 6 week old pullets I would keep an eye on them by using a different gate system like this e a different place to sleep at night till a little older when they can handle the rough play from the older girls. I use a spray bottle with water to shock the bullies when they start. Hoping this may help.
My chicks are 9 weeks old how much longer till they are full size? Your chicks grow up so fast! Do they have any names?
Maybe I missed it, but what age are these littles?
What do you have on the ground in that coop?
great video,where to get chic plastic pens,thanks
What’s the max age difference for chicks if I want to use the same brooder? I’m starting a new flock but having a difficult time getting the rest of the chicks I wanted. Currently I have 8 day and 5 day, but it’ll be closer to 2 weeks when I get the next chicks in. 😐
They are over double the size they are at 2 weeks compared to 1-3 days old. If there’s a way you can put a divider up until the new chicks are at least 1-2 weeks old min. I would do that. The main thing that might happen is that they are really small and might get trampled.
I hatched some chicks...I'm less than 1 year into having chickens. But when I "candled" my first batch of eggs at 14 days, I found most where not viable...so with out thinking I grabbed some more fresh eggs from my chicken and added them into the incubator.
In the end I hatch three chicks, one 16 days behind the other two. Once my first two hatched I bought three, so I had 5 the same age and two roughly 16 days younger (I bought another chick so my youngest would have a buddy)...
Now getting close to time for them to join the outdoor flock (one rooster with three hens). Once the babies (all 7 of them) are released from their private run, which is in the chicken yard, into my chickens' yard they should know each other fairly well.
BTW- I'm in Texas, I know that makes a big difference.
We just integrated several different breeds of older and younger chicks. I noticed the older chicks don't let the younger more docile ones have food. Is there something I can do to help out?
Multiple feed and water stations
More feeding areas and water.
My rooster is attacking my 3 month old chick. The other 4 hens follow his lead
Do you have any rooster?
My white crested black polish is possessed by a demon. It screeches all day and all night. 😩 Nothing is wrong with her, she just wants to free range but can't due to hawks. All my other chickens are quiet.
Did you believe that I bought 2 ducks and 4 baby chickens. I heard then screaming 2 AM from my backyard, when I checked them I found a big rat eating them , one duck without head the other had bad injury and the baby chicken some died and some injured too. That f**** big rat.
got younger chickens about 3 months am going to move them .hopeful at night put where older chickens are roosting. wake up buddys.