Re: advice on re-forming flocks?

"Farm1" <please@askifyouwannaknow> wrote in message
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I've found that my hens have been able to be mixed IF I put them next
to each others in pens for a few weeks so they could look at each
other through the wire and IF I mixed about the same numbers from one
flock into the other when time did come for mixing.

well yes to both those things!

have i got the whole thing wrong? any advice? would there be a
better way to
re-form the flocks - or should i just throw the whole lot in
together, even?

No to the latter IMHO - the picked on, stay picked on. Sometimes it
works to remove the picked on ones entirely and get them refeathered
and bigger and healthier but not always.

hm, shame. do you mean my unfortunate hens would probably just be picked on
by the little isas instead of the big ones? even if they did just get picked
on by others instead, is it a good idea anyway? or in your opinion is it as
well if they stay with their pre-existing flock because there's probably not
going to be any benefit to anyone?
thanks farm!
kylie


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