From my mom or my friend, yes. Especially thunder hugs when I need help regulating. Other people, I won't argue, but I won't ask either. I also don't reciprocate, as odd as it sounds. My arms don't want to move, just my head and shoulders.
You can't just make a bird bond with a chick. They need to have been broody (rarely, rarely, rarely there are exceptions, but it's almost certain that the bird in question isn't t one) to have the possibility of taking in the chick. The chick also needs to accept the broody, which generally...
Likely this. The more productive the mother, the more eggs she'll lay and the more potential ducklings they can sell from her. It's (partially) the same reasoning with the mother strain in CornishX
In my fair, you had to have at least 5 to have any placing including grands and reserves. If there were less, then they just got the red and blue non-place ribbons. Very rarely were there whites, typically only if the animal was clearly not show condition (ratty and missing feathers or mid molt...
If the olive egger doesn't have a Crest, all it means is the parents didn't have a Crest. All three of mine are crestless because neither araucana nor marans have crests, but they do have the color genes needed for olive eggs
I've had hens show up with chicks before. Usually it's because I'm just really bad at looking for nests, or in my ranging flock, I just assume one was taken by a predator. Although I'll be honest, I had one just 3 days ago show up with a chick that I had genuinely forgotten I still had since she...