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Quote: That sounds like a fine arrangement to have them together but segregated. The mama hen probably won't lay eggs while she is raising her babies. What I sometimes do to allow chicks to eat chick feed without feeding it to everyone, is take a little run I have that is constructed of 1x2's...

I don't wait two months. I have had the best success segregating the hen with her new chicks for the first few days. This allows for the hen to get to know her chicks and for the chicks to know which hen is their mother. They learn to listen to her when she tells them where to find food and...

Putting them under her at night is the best plan. I had a dozen eggs under my hen and she was able to cover them all comfortably. If they had all hatched, I guess that would have meant 12 chicks were a good fit too. How many chicks are you getting? If you are concerned they won't be able to...

I am in the same situation right now. I have a BSL sitting on infertile eggs - poor girl. I'm trying to find her a few fertile eggs locally to pick up because in this heat I don't want to risk shipping eggs. In the event I am unable to pick up some eggs, my back up plan is to try to find...