Marvelous Miss Mavis is doing a grand job of raising the 3 flock babies that she hatched. However, she can't seem to get them to walk down the the ramp from the coop onto the ground. I've made a ramp with the lowest angle I possibly can. The youngest of the 3 is about a week old, the oldest is...
I posted a while back about 2 hens sharing incubating duties. A couple of babies hatched, but one of the hens killed them. My alpha female then decided she was going hatch the eggs, so I sectioned her off in the big coop, and lo a behold! She has hatched two little ones! I've kept her and the...
Help, I have a broody situation! One hen decided she was going to hatch eggs that the whole flock had laid, so I let her. A little more than half way through, another hen decided she was going to help, and they've had no problems sitting on the eggs together. Well, a chick (possibly 2) hatched a...