We have just bought 23 ex-battery hens 1 week ago and am looking for advice as to how and at what stage do we introduce them to or existing 'flock' of 3 silkie cockerels and 1 other cockerel and our 4 hybrid hens who all live and run freely and happily around our smallholding of about 1 acre and sleep in an old stable seperate (next door) from the ex-batt's.
Do we as some have suggested let them get on with it as eventually the plan is to build a coop to hold them all in at nightime.
thanx