Yesterday, we were greeted with little peeps from underneath a broody hen in our coop. I plan on letting her raise them, integrated with the flock. I'm wondering, however, if I should bring food and water into the nesting box, or if their brood mama, when ready, will take them outside to eat eat...
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I have an existing flock of 5 older hens (3 reds, an ameraucana, and a buff orpington). In early April, I ordered and received 5 cuckoo maran female chicks and one salmon faverolle male chick. They moved out from the brooder to a temporary coop fenced off in the same run with the big girls...
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First time poster to this forum, which I've perused many times over the past couple of years.
By way of introduction, I first got chickens in 2017. Our initial flock was 6 Rhode Island Red chicks, which I bought at the local feed store. While the girls were growing, my son and I built this...