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Any chicken whisperers on PA?

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Mesophilic:

--- Quote from: JW_Halverson on December 13, 2022, 10:15:46 pm ---Maybe pen up the bossy old hen for a few weeks to let the rest of the flock work things out. By the time she gets out maybe her loss of status will calm things down?

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I had thought of this and probably would've tried it, bit with winter here, I don't have anywhere to put her except an old wire dog crate.  I just don't have the time or patience right now, so sent the younger hens back to my friend's coop.  Maybe we'll try again when they're bigger and the weather is warmer.  Or maybe I'll fake a raccoon attack, and put the alpha in the freezer...just can't let my kid ever find out  >:D

sleek:
We raise chickens. Older chickens will kill any new combers. You must introduce them slowly. We keep the new ones after they are full grown in a dog crate inside the coop with the older flock. They scope eachother out for about a week, until they are more acquainted. Then they are let loose to be with the general population. They still get pecked at but not lethally. They got to warm up to eachother or you will have a masacre.

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