Recent content by Meety Peety

Thanks Sphynxii. Not sure there will be a next time. I really like the idea of letting the hens grow the flock.. but I've had some pretty bad luck with it my first two attempts. This time has been especially rough but even the first attempt only yielded 3 chicks, one of which was a rooster. On...

UPDATE - The chick has died. My fiancé just came in as I was writing this and told me I don't need to finish my reply. I'm pretty bummed, I was really getting my hopes up that it was just a newborn that needed time to adjust. I don't think taking it away from the hen would have caused it to die...

Hello all, I'm not sure where to begin, so I'll just jump right in. One of out hens started laying on her eggs so we decided to let her hatch them. Everything went fine until around the time the chicks were supposed to start hatching. Every couple days I would find a dead baby that was...