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    Introducing a single 2 week old chick to four hatchlings

    Ah, I see, we’ll just have to hope for the best then. Thank you!!
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    Introducing a single 2 week old chick to four hatchlings

    Thank you so much for the detailed response! The chick does seem to be healthy. It is growing fast (size doubled in one week) and feathering out, and showing much less interest in mirrors and feathers and bird sound and a lot more interest in people and people activities. It likes to perch up on...
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    Introducing a single 2 week old chick to four hatchlings

    Thank you for the good advice! I appreciate it! How old is too old to vaccinate?
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    Introducing a single 2 week old chick to four hatchlings

    Thank you for the good advice! We named the chick Lucky! We all agreed it was one lucky chick 🍀 🐥 Here is a pic from Lucky’s first day, last week, and a pic I took this morning. Lucky likes to perch on my shoulder and burrow in my hair. It’s very sweet, and so far I’ve also been really lucky...
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    Introducing a single 2 week old chick to four hatchlings

    Thank you so much for the good advice! The little chick is 1 week old today and doing great! We named it Lucky. Lucky is now twice as big, confident, and feathering out on the wing tips! Yesterday, we found another hatchling being attacked by a hen (to my great surprise! Ive never found brand...
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    Introducing a single 2 week old chick to four hatchlings

    Hi all, I live in Hawaii where feral chickens are common, and have several neighborhood chickens who frequent my yard. The hens seem to prefer to nest closer to human dwellings, where they are safer from mongoose (a local predator of baby chicks). We had a hen sitting some eggs in a corner of...
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    Establishing Feral Chicken flock

    I think in Washington you would have to worry about raccoons and coyotes eating your chickens up. Un-cooped chickens don’t have much defense against raccoons in particular , who can climb trees. You could probably manage to keep a semi-feral flock by training your domestic flock to roam all...
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    Solo Feral Chickie

    Thank you everyone for your help. The little chick died a few days ago. I feel terrible, sorry I haven’t updated you sooner. I think he overheated from the hot water bottle. There is another solo chick still running around the woods, and he is still alive anyway. I should have just left the...
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    Solo Feral Chickie

    An egg! Of course! Thank you! I never would have thought of that, but it makes so much sense. Cooking him an egg right now. Do you think he could rejoin the neighborhood flocks successfully when he gets bigger? The local flocks seem happy out there, and really none of them are skinny...
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    Solo Feral Chickie

    I put a baby bottle full of hot water (wrapped in paper towels) in his box last night, he never went near it. I was thinking maybe wild chicks are a bit more tolerant of cooler temperatures? Or maybe he is unwell? He is almost constantly peeping. Is that normal? He seems sleepy, he closes his...
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    Solo Feral Chickie

    I love on Oahu, where feral chickens are extremely common. We like to throw corn for our neighborhood flock in the afternoons. Last night I found a baby chick outside my window at nightfall. He was peeping and peeping and all alone, and I had already seen local cats out hunting. I picked him...
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