Mell,

I guess everyone is swamped. I am overrun with about 300 bantam chicks of
various ages that I need to put into larger coops. And was gone for a week
(took 50 scouts on a high adventure trip to WVa).

Yes, you can introduce new ones if you do it right. I do it all of the time,
but you have to be careful and sometimes you have to watch to see if they are
getting along. I usually put the new ones in a cage in the big coop for a day or
so (with food and water) and then when the others are out free ranging or just
after they come back in at night, I let the other ones out of their pen into the
larger coop/pen. There might be a bit of establishing the pecking order, but
not much more.

Mark in NC

--- In bantamchickens@yahoogroups.com, "mellww" <melloney.garner@...> wrote:
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> I have 5 bantams that are 4-5 years old and are not laying as well as they
used to. I want to know if I can introduce new bantams to this group? Someone
told me they will fight. The current group are shut in a coop and run overnight
and I let them out to free range during the afternoon.
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