I have 11 Ameraucana chicks that are 7 weeks old. They’re in a space that is admitedly a little small (an XXL dog kennel inside the barn)(barn itself is not predator-proof) for the next week or so while the new coop is getting built.
I usually sit with them for a while every day, and yesterday...
About a week ago I put my 4-week-old batch of ducklings in the coop with my dozen year-old Anconas. Everything was going well. Yesterday morning I opened the coop and they all came boiling out together like normal, but I heard cheeping from inside the coop. I opened the door and saw a duckling...