Thank you both for responding. Yes we goofed up; in the four years we've had our chickens this is the first time we've had any hatch and were caught totally unprepared mentally and off guard. The problem with the mothers is we have 3 nesting boxes and five hens who sit, so figuring out who...
Off topic but worth it I think... She was uneducated; she did have refrigeration. If you live on water, construct a Spring box which floats in the water, and stays cool and watertight. Perfect refrigeration; streams you can do the same with also, plus a spring house if you redirect the stream...
Hello... I'm "new" to the forum, but not new in that I've been reading for a couple of years (4) and we have a nice flock of various breeds of chickens, both standard and bantam. On Monday, my husband came in from letting everyone out of the coop into the run, with a baby chick in his...