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    Placing day olds under a broody hen - questions about isolation and feeding

    Do I need to wait until late tonight again to put her back in?
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    Placing day olds under a broody hen - questions about isolation and feeding

    Can you explain why getting her a friend is a bad idea? Do we need to wait until the wee hours of dark to put her in with mom again? (We put her in last night. It wasn't until this afternoon that she fell out, so they did have some time together.)
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    Placing day olds under a broody hen - questions about isolation and feeding

    Update: We snuck the babies in last night, apparently successfully. Everything was going well until we realized one of the chicks had fallen out of the nest box and was found by two hens who had pecked her. Her middle toe on the left foot is discolored and bends oddly (we think broken), and...
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    Placing day olds under a broody hen - questions about isolation and feeding

    Well, shoot. I just tried to sneak the chicks in, but she was awake. At 11:30pm! She pecked at me as I tried to place one under her, so I am too nervous to leave her with the chicks. This is the first time she's pecked. She let me remove eggs in the past. We had a back up plan to raise...
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    Placing day olds under a broody hen - questions about isolation and feeding

    Hello, We have a broody Wyandotte - Ginny - and just got some day old chicks to sneak under her late tonight. We have 7 hens and 2 nest boxes, and she's been in one of the boxes almost solidly for a week. I was removing eggs and I left a golf ball for her to sit on, which she is nice and...
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    4-5 day old vent/pasty butt problem

    Hello, I read another forum posting about pasty butt and correcting it and I suspect that's what's going on with our silkie. I have been trying to remove the poop with a warm washcloth/baby wipe as suggested by someone else (with no luck), along with giving probiotics and feeding hardboiled...
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