Hopefully before the snow flies, I will have a new chicken run and coop, and can start moving chickens from their various tractors to their new home. My question is, who do I put in first? I have a mixed grouping of about a dozen chicks (pullets) currently around 5 months old, a pair of sussex hens, a trio of ameraucana hens, and an ameraucana bachelor, who I plan to be the head rooster. They are all a little over a year old. I also will put in a second young rooster, as there are a lot of hens. The chick group is headed by a leghorn rooster. Since he is leader, do I try him in the new pen with the ameraucana, or leave him with the rest of his fellow cockerels in the planned rooster pen and put in a rooster who is lower in the pecking order? I appreciate any thoughts on this (besides all in and all out - too late for that - newbie mistake).
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