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Produce => Kept Animals => Topic started by: kt. on July 13, 2015, 21:25:58
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REPLACING POULTRY: Having had hens on my allotment for over 8 years now, I have always replaced my stock in full but have just added 5 POL hens to my seven 20 month old birds that will be culled in a few months. I know there is to be some bullying for a day or two to sort the pecking order but they have been mixed for 9 days now but the new ones are still not mixing too well. Is it best to continue to replace all at once or overlap each year.
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Anybody?
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What we've found in similar circumstances is that the "new flock" tend to stick together, so it takes a little longer to sort out the eventual pecking order. Provided there's no serious bloodshed, we leave them to sort things out, which they eventually do.