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This is a first time Mom (Annie)that is with her now. The other hen(Dovey) that co-nested and co-parented with her the first few weeks, has abandoned 3 chicks from her other nestings. She easily gave up on this one now. Annie is doing fine with her in the playpen, and is very content to just...

Thank you. I went to the pen and mom was checking every where for her. I brought mom into the playpen and she is doing well with the chick :)

Thank you.

What does this mean????

Pooping well, alert and chirping

Okay

I have a 25 day old chick that was acting strange last night and her 2 Moms didn't want anything to do with her. Yes...for some reason, all my hens pair up when nesting and co-parent even if only 1 chick hatches, lol. I have a large rectangular nesting box that they both sit in with her...

I have a 25 day old chick that was acting strange last night and her 2 Moms didn't want anything to do with her. Yes...for some reason, all my hens pair up when nesting and co-parent even if only 1 chick hatches, lol. I have a large rectangular nesting box that they both sit in with her...

Not sure of the breed. Since she was broody and nesting, she was not up and moving around to have eaten any bug. I kept fresh food and water about two feet away from her. I went out this morning, expecting her to be dead and found her roosting on a bar, but still hanging her head down. She did...

Help question.....I have an an 8 year old hen that has been broody and sitting on eggs for a week. She was fine this morning, in her nesting box, alert and fiesty when I went to check the eggs under her. I went to close up the pens around 8 pm and saw her on the ground clucking(like she would to...

They are Silkie Bantams. I have some just like them

We recently had a fox that took out 14 of our chickens. We have 2 Jersey Giants that were nesting that he didn't get. They have has 2 sets of hatchlings in the past so they are not first time moms. They have been very good mothers and very protective. The eggs started hatching from "Dolly"...

I have no clue how to make one. Like I said, we have always bought the baby chicks, kept them under a heat lamp until they got big enough to put out. This is our first experience (and the hens) with laying and setting on eggs. Until recently, we always took the eggs up, but decided to let a hen...

The hen, today, has abandoned the eggs she was sitting on (they were due at various dates--none close to being due). A lot of my hens will lay their eggs in box #1, although we have 6 boxes. She was sitting on various colored eggs:lol: So....I don't have the option of putting it back under the...

No, I don't have an incubator. Just a heat lamp. and am keeping it moist with a wet paper towel. Anything else to do? or watch for?

I went out to the coop and there was a hole (about half the size of a dime) that a rooster had pecked into a 19 day old egg. The chick is moving and I can see it breathing. It looks like the hole is near the wing of the chick. I brought the egg in, place a wet paper towel, loosely around it and...