new chooks

[happy place]

i have more chooks got 6 more over the weekend so now have 12 girls. the newbies arent laying yet and they seem to be dab hands at escaping the oldies seem to have stopped attacking them but they still dont want to mix

[healer]

If you put some young-non-egg producing human girls in with ones that are in the age of fertility they wouldn't mix. The older ones would be too supreme to be seen dead with a pre-pubecant girl - except to keep her in her place! I think chickens are scarily the same

Give them time for the others to grow up but I have always found that the bigger flocks do split up. They have hunting palls and ones they dust bath with etc. Some say after 12 the flock gets too big to be in one open compound and you can get wars...but I'm sure others will disagree!

[happy place]

that makes sence they bulling seems to be less to day and they are mixing a little but definatly on the terms of the oldies

on an aside 1 of my older girls seems to be going butch (growing spurs) if she starts crowing she have to go in the pot