This is not my first time integrating flocks but this integration is especially challenging:
I started with 4 hens and a year later successfully integrated 4 more hens. (even match, they met each other through wire walls, free ranged together and had plenty of food spots) Two years later, my...
I got four assorted bantams from my local tractor supply. I've had full sized girls for over four years (Rhode island reds, cream leg bars, black jersey giants, leghorns etc) but never bantams. My understanding is that bantams aren't usually gendered. My chicks are now 11-12 weeks (3mos)...