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Backyard Poultry

Chicken Huddle

After taking all the necessary precautions for warmth and safety, it was finally time to introduce the little biddies to their new home. As you can see, they were very cautious at first. The thing about chickens in general is that they typically are very skeptical of change. These chicks were no exception. My strategy when introducing change is to keep as much the same as possible in the new environment. So with this move, I transferred the same feeding trough, gallon waterer, baby roosts, and even the rock (center bottom under the black chick in the photo) into the new home. I even used pieces of the old box to enclose a much smaller space inside the new house. But despite all these measures, those chicks still knew they were in a new place. You can see them huddling together above, soon after arrival. Only the Rhode Island Red roosters are brave enough to leave the huddle. In fact, isn't it funny to see that one RI Red rooster baby out there all by itself?! I really wonder what it is thinking.