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Put new hatchling in with 2 week old Ideal chicks this afternoon. Watched them for a couple hours. Nobody picking on newbie... Newbie was eating and drinking water today b4 I put in with 30 pack. (Finger on left of photo pointing to newbie.)
All the little ones doing good. Everybody getting along. Hope I am not speaking to soon!! I have read a few horror stories about letting all the chickens run together. Momma hen has been taking chicks out of new enclosed pen for a few days now. So I have been on hawk duty...
New baby hatched today.
Heavy drizzle and light rain overnight... 1.5"
Gathered these eggs that have been laid since last week. Gotta get the nesting area reworked and hens on nests. They have been laying outside for the last few weeks.
What I am currently doing with carcauses. When I first started incubating and hatching last year, the little chicks that made it out of shell alive but did not live long, all had burials. But the sick chicks that didn't make it and the 1 killed this morning got cremated. Got more reading to do on this subject too. Not near enough time for my new addiction.
Went in hen house first thing this morning, all OK. Opened sixlets cage and hen house door then went to get feed and water. Heard one squeal. Went back out and found rooster in hen house doorway and sixlets in open cage with 1 dead. Think rooster was the problem. Now I have hours of reading to do about separating and integrating chickens of different ages.....looked closely at pullet. Unable to determine cause of death. Totally sucks!! This is 1 of 6 if last chicks I incubated and hatched. It is almost 2 months old.
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