You might be able to pick up a few more useful tips by reading how I integrate new adult chickens, linked below. You also need to establish the coop as "home" for the new birds and sleeping in it from the start will accomplish this. The most tension comes during daytime activities. It also helps to let them all sleep together in the coop after the first night you have the new ones. As opposed to simply tossing them together, this greatly reduces the incidence of conflict and even encouraging bullying that can become a chronic problem. After a period of a few days or even a week, you can begin letting them mingle for increasing amounts of time until they are all comfortable with each other. Let the new birds adjust to being in a new setting and get used to the single hen by providing a safe enclosure where they can all observe one another but not feel compelled to get into any pecking order skirmishes. In a barnyard there is an assortment of chickens and. So you do not need to be in any big hurry to toss them all together. the probability of getting a science instructor or a math instructor. The important thing to keep in mind when you are going through the integration process is that your single hen doesn't need to welcome or like the newcomers to derive immediate benefit from being around them. A chicken needs a flock, not for friendships, but for the security and well being it provides. It determines how you integrate new chickens with your original hen and even whether to choose chicks or older birds.
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Why is this even an issue? Because it helps to understand what your single hen needs in the way of other chickens when you are trying to decide how to provide her with a new flock. It's difficult to even come up with a word to describe what a chicken experiences that doesn't have a flock because all of our words to describe it apply to human emotions of loneliness, and chickens don't experience loneliness the same as humans.
Nowhere in the responses has there been any mention of why a single chicken may experience some sense of abandonment and why we feel the need to get them companions when they lose their flock.
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