Help! Please!! Just added New chicken!

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kirstie1978

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Re: Help! Please!! Just added New chicken!
« Reply #15 on: January 19, 2011, 18:42 »
i put them in the upstairs part together and flump shot into the corner to hide but didn't seem to attack each other. i checked on them after an hour and flump had gone downstairs and the new one was sat at the bottom of the stairs... so not sure...
will get get up at 7.15 to let them out so the doors open before it gets light...
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Re: Help! Please!! Just added New chicken!
« Reply #16 on: January 20, 2011, 08:09 »
Kirstie
How did last night go, and how were they when you let them out this morning?

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Re: Help! Please!! Just added New chicken!
« Reply #17 on: January 20, 2011, 08:37 »
Joyfulls advice is good - go with it. You'll soon wonder why you were so worried :) :) :)
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted!!

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kirstie1978

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Re: Help! Please!! Just added New chicken!
« Reply #18 on: January 20, 2011, 09:13 »
Well they haven't attacked each other so far, flump the silkie just runs away terrified when she sees the new one. I will persevere and hope it all sorts out soon. Thanks for the advice

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kirstie1978

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Re: Help! Please!! Just added New chicken!
« Reply #19 on: January 20, 2011, 16:41 »
Well we might be getting somewhere! Although all it takes is a small something and Flump runs away in a flash! Hopefully it'll settle down, btu at least they're not going for each other as far as i can see!
Oh and any ideas for names for this new black chicken are welcome?! I wasn't sure as all mine have been named after the sweet boxes they were gotten in... but she wasn't... and liquorice doesn't seem to suit her... so perhaps Mallow?! haha!

Thanks for all the support!

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bantam novice

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Re: Help! Please!! Just added New chicken!
« Reply #20 on: January 20, 2011, 18:37 »
What about Black Magic?  :)

Glad to hear things are settling down
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Re: Help! Please!! Just added New chicken!
« Reply #21 on: January 20, 2011, 18:40 »
Our black silkie is called Dorothy, and it really suits her.

There used to be an elderly lady near where I worked who had an ample bosom, called Pamela - we used to call her 'Busty Pamela' which I always thought was a great name for a chicken!

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Chrysalis

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Re: Help! Please!! Just added New chicken!
« Reply #22 on: January 20, 2011, 18:53 »
I sympathise with your worries, but things DO sort out eventually.  Our warren, Wilma, was awful to the other three when we got them and pecked the bluebell badly.  We had to separate them for a while.  We gave Wilma her own condo for night times by partitioning the nest boxes in the coop and if it was really bad during the day she was confined to the small run while the others roamed in the big pen.... we did this for weeks (probably a lot longer than advisable), but with time and patience she did stop bullying them and now all four hens cuddle up in one nestbox.  We have to check who's on the bottom of the heap!!
Spend some time with them this weekend and purr/coo at them?!! they just want a bit of love... Hope Flump settles down soon.  ::)

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kirstie1978

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Re: Help! Please!! Just added New chicken!
« Reply #23 on: January 21, 2011, 10:20 »
Fingers crossed they do settle soon! They're so far apart most of the time or skitish near each other! I just don't want them suffering or being unhappy! I will keep you posted, but hopefully by the end of the weekend, they'll be friends! Not too much to ask is it?!

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Re: Help! Please!! Just added New chicken!
« Reply #24 on: January 21, 2011, 14:29 »
they are both beautiful, i think you should call her Ebony, i know its not a sweet but i think it suits her lol.
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