The big girls were surprised yesterday when I opened their coop and inserted a dog crate containing three new sisters. These two gals were definitely not the higher-ups on the pecking order with my deceased ladies, and Ginger and Nutmeg kept seeming kind of jumpy and nervous the last few days, although they appear to have enjoyed being able to sleep on the windowsill of the coop together. Yesterday Ollie and I visited a local poultry and rabbit operation and bought three 8 week old chicks: a black sex-link, a red sex-link and a gray Ameraucana that looks like a pigeon.
My other girls are probably 9-10 weeks old, so these babies need to catch a growth spurt. I let the birds integrate during the evening of day one, and witnessed four little bird bodies sleeping on the windowsill of the coop together that night. The next day I noticed that big Nutmeg was chasing after the little girls and trying to peck them...so they are now separated again. I may let them be out together tonight again and see how that goes since the dog crate is not big enough to accommodate three growing chicks for long.
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