Thanks everyone for your advice and well wishes! We’ve moved the lamp further over to keep a cooler area and have higher protein feed crushed up for them. Will keep everyone updated as things progress, any further advice or comments would be much appreciated! Please message if you have any...
At the time of posting one egg had hatched, but since then we’ve had another three eggs hatch. We’re just trying to make sure they’re nice and warm as we’re worried we can’t replicate a mother or even a chicken hen that could look after them :(
Hi there, a few weeks ago a well-intentioned family member popped some abandoned partridge eggs underneath the chickens we own in the hope that the hens would sit on the eggs and raise them as their own. They’ve sat on the eggs happily until now, but have started to attack the chicks as they’ve...