help!!!!!! my chickens are bickering!!

Hello to all i am a novice chicken keeper and in need of some expert advice. I have three bantem hens which have been together from hatching. I have had them a week and a half They are kept in an 8ft square 6ft high avairy with hen house and will have the run of the garden when they have settled a bit. The problem is we tried to add another hen this afternoon (a blue lacewing bantem) and there has been some fairly nasty arguing no injuries but is this normal???

I am afraid this is normal. I would pop them together over night, (chickens roosting rarely fight)then in the mornng put the new hen in a segregated part of the run - just pop a chicken wire partition up-so they can see each other but not fight, it will probably take a few weeks mind before they are living happily together! Good luck, a lot of patience is needed when merging hens together I'm afraid!

You mean you didn't hear the creaky joints