Good choice to reunite them. I'm raising 6 regular sized chicks and 4 bantams who are 11 days younger. There is a big size difference now they are 4-6 weeks old but they hate being apart. I briefly considered letting the big chicks out of the brooder first but the bantams miss them if I even...
One chick with a mama hen should be ok. We had a hen sneakily hatch just one egg over the winter mama and chick did fine. The chick is a roo of course.:he
Lots of rain here. I got some indoor gardening done after work. I potted up some winter squash seeds. I know they do best planted right in the ground and we do that too but have some started indoors in case the critters eat all the seeds outside before they do their thing :).
Agreed, thanks for the thread. My Maticoopx 20 has arrived and I'm running it now, without eggs, to check everything is working and that I understand the machine.
Are they still seeking out the heated area? I have a group of 6 birds who are nearly 6 weeks and 4 birds that are 4 weeks. They're all together. I'm leaving their brooder heat plate for now, they seem to be using it less and less and mainly only the younger ones. I don't know what your weather...