lone baby chick

My little brother recently went to a farm house with my dad. It’s owned by a friend of my dad’s. While there, he saw them killing runt baby chicks. (know it’s runt because he asked why are u kill killing them and they said it’s because the chicks were too small.) My brother originally picked...

Hi, i have a 6 day old Serama chick with so many tiny bugs. This is my first time dealing with this since i just started raising chickens last year. I did not realize the parents of the chick were infested with these bugs until the chick hatched, which i also did not know was going to happen...

Hi, I live in the suburbs and we are only allowed 5 chickens. Two died last year, and 6 weeks ago i got two new chicks to replace. This morning I went to the brooder and the small one was dead! So now I have only one 6 week old Novagen pullet to add to the flock of three old ladies (in pecking...

Hi So I hatched 8 beautiful baby chicks 5 weeks ago. I brought 5 of them to their new home. Two passed away and now I have one left. The reason I kept my one is because he and one of his hatch mates got slipped tendons when they were small. I had tried to fix it with no success. His hatch mate...

We incubated 8 of our own hens’ eggs and unfortunately only one hatched. Whilst it’s a gift that we now successfully hatched one of our own eggs for the first time, I can’t help feeling sad that this chick will grow up by itself. Are there any ways that we can allow for this chick to not be...

hi everyone, at the start of the year i ordered 10 eggs which i got an extra 1. the first 2 days one of the egg started oozing so i cleaned the incubator again before the rest go in. Sadly, from all the eggs only 1 hatched (cochin/brahma) chick. guessing its cochin but not sure cause they mixed...

I have 1 rooster and 14 hens, one of which is a silkie. She incubated eggs and hatched a singular chick out just fine. I think that they were naturally staggered. Mama silkie rejected peep, in all honesty I think she was surprised, so now I have one chick in my room. It has imprinted in me, and...

I bought two pullets to add to my flock of 5 over the weekend. One passed away suddenly over night. I'm working on getting the healthy one a friend but in the meantime what can I do to keep the little hen happy and not lonely? She is still too young to put in with our older girls. Thank you for...

George is my smallest baby, one of two OEGBs in my little flock, and never wants anything to do with running after treats or me holding them. Also, he doesn’t often lay with his peers. I’ve had them for 5 days now, could s/he still be stressed from the new environment? Or perhaps s/he is at the...

A few months ago we got some baby chicks from tractor supply. The first few weeks went by fine and nothing really happened. Then they got to the age where they could be out in the coop. I will forever regret that decision. We put them out and they seemed to like it. They had fun in their new...

My family and I went on vacation for a week and came back to 3 broody hens laying on a bunch of eggs together. We decided to let them continue and see what happened (this would be our first try hatching our own chicks). 3 chicks hatched at are thriving. Days later, I found one flattened chick...