- Sep 30, 2013
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The very first chicks i got, i had ordered. I kept them in the kitchen in a container for the first few days. My cocker spaniel totally fell in love with them! I think it made her mothering instinct come out. For years after that, until she died of old age, she kept a very loving watch on the chickens, no matter how many i had. She even came to me one day with something in her mouth and whining...she had been in a nest in the coop and took an egg while the hen was on a break, that was about to hatch and was 'peeping' in the shell! She thought that was the grandest thing she'd ever seen! She brought it to me so easy and gentle like it was a priceless jewel! I guess that would be my advice, is to let some babies stay in a container where the dog can just lay and watch them and become familier with them first.