mama and babies questions

So I have 3 hens that went broody around the same time. I let them each have 3 eggs. Some are definitely going to hatch, hopefully this weekend but not sure how many yet. I ordered a few chicks from our local farm store to have just in case. These mamas deserve babies! They’ve worked so hard...

Good morning all. I'm sorry for my novel but please bear with me, I need some help. I have two hen mothers at the moment. One already has about 2 four week old chicks. We had 6 but about 4 days after they were born, a snake took 4. Now I have a hen brooding in the laying box. One of her chicks...

Yikes! Broody hen has been sitting on eggs for what I thought was almost 2.5 weeks. Well now she’s sitting on a baby chick! Help! What do I do? She’s about 3.5 feet off the ground in her nest. I removed the big waterer and put a chick waterer in the coop. The coop is an old 10’x15’ barn. I...

I went to spend time this afternoon with my girls. Mama has started taking her adopted babes out in the covered run - most of the other hens spend days under shade of their old coop in the "uncovered" area. I have noticed one senior member of the group menacing mama. Today, while they enjoyed...

I am trying to sell some of my month old chicks because I have too many for my area where I live. Will mama know I took some of the babies if I leave some with her?

Hi y'all, Has anyone else experienced their mama hen having changes in their stools when switching to the medicated chick starter after her chicks are born? Its been very soft and loose, but it's dark brown and very stinky. I'm having to clean out the broader coop everyday and wipe her butt...

I have soo many questions, the first girl I've ever hatched from an egg has gone broody :celebrate:love My serama hen Kitty started laying two weeks ago, and I thought, I wonder how long it will take for her to go broody if I left the eggs there. Literally 7 days ago, I stopped picking up her...

Update: the chick died. This morning when my husband went to let out the chickens, he found that one of our four-week-old Buff Orpington chicks had a bloody flayed back! The chicks had been closed up by themselves in a separate coop with their "mother," a Silkie cross, and are also within an...

We are thinking about making a metal shed coop and moving our current flock of 6 (soon to be 10)into it. We put a lot of effort into our current coop and originally thought that it would be the coop for winter since it is just easier to move around and get fresh grass weekly with, and the shed...

Hello All! I have a broody hatching out some chicks (actually they are hatching right now and over the next few days), this week the temperatures are supposed to dip into the single digits and one night go to -1. Will they chicks be okay? I know mama can keep them warm, but what about when they...

we have cared for many newborn chicks in a brooder. We have incubated and hatched ducks in a brooder. But one of our female ducks went broody and we have her and two new babies since yesterday. I separated the other ducks from her, but do I just provide food and water in their little house just...