The Solution?

Enough is enough! Go inside to seek answers in my extensive and expensive library of chicken books. (Every newbie buys them - all of  'em) Seems this is very common problem, but once they get used to seeing each other for a while, they will get along. Yup! That's them all right! I go back outside and take the little chick hutch out of the pen and just let the four of them  mingle with each other. Simple. Easy. By the book.

WRONG-O-MUNDO!

 Big time.

Drag the very heavy little chick hutch back into the pen and put the Evil One and Lucy in it for being such bad girls. Oscar and Nina now have the entire run of the pen and the coop to themselves. Oscar sees that the other two can't get to him, so he chases little Nina and wants to play cowboy. She gets upset and runs in the coop and he follows. Lots of chicken noises in the coop. So much noise that the two in the hutch start squawking. Loudly. Hubby comes out of the barn, shakes his head and has that damn "I told you so" look on his face again.
I refuse to give up..... I refuse to give up.....

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