Here she is making herself at home on my lap and sleeping on my shoulder during my morning coffee. Ignore the weird look on my face, it was sunny and I was being blinded.
So just wanted to give an update. I decided to try the suggestion to build a safe spot with the juveniles before adding a new chick and its been working out great. She spent the first few days in her hidey hole as they would chase her whenever she emerged, but now they mostly ignore her unless...
I had someone message me on the facebook group and may be getting a 2 week old chick today. If it falls through I will definitely do what you advised with the chick run. Should I do anything special to introduce the two chicks or will they be fine to just put in together?
I spent the day calling around our feed stores and everybody is done for the season. I've got an ad on our facebook buy and sell page (small town, no craigslist to speak of) so maybe I'll get a hit there. In the meantime I've put a mirror in her pen and we're spending lots of time with her.
We just moved our 3 week old Easter Eggers (2 of them) out of our house to the garage 2 days ago. Unfortunately my 4 year old didn't put the lid on all the way after watering them last night and they got out and it looks like something got one of them. We found the other one yelling her head off...