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Mine cannot recognize offspring when raised that way. Mine recognize offspring when raised in natural social groups. They recognize all chicks hatched into group as members, regardless of genetic background.

Both sexes can recognize chicks belonging to their social group.

First egg with pair setup only 48 hours. I missed nest site preparation.

Rooster / cock / male is three years old and heterozygous for the silver allele. The hen / female is just shy of a year old and heterozygous for blue legs. Half of the chicks will be white and half will be blue-legged. Both adults a heterozygous for toppy so only one in for will be without...

People do polygamy too, to some those people are not people. I want the children to understand / see patterns how social groupings operate. There are behavioral mechanisms at play, often subtle that are essential for harmony.

The kids have caught on to the polygamy option with the other breeding groups. What is of interest is the bonding that keeps individuals in a group, whether the group is a male-female, male-female-female trio or more on the female side. The bonding is the marriage part. What is clear when...

Fox resolved months ago.

We are going to give this a second go with a different couple. Hen recovered from a brood earlier in year and rooster well into eclipse molt.

I am not sure he knows beyond Love Heart and chick not showing up. We will pull a pullet from barn in next couple days to try again with the up graded nest. Next round we will be putting pen over broody with chicks to reduce odds of such a loss. Pullet will not have a history being a broody, but...

This story did not end well. Fox, probably a Red Fox. I showed kids signs indicating fox as we checked her roosting location where captured and what we could deduce for other observations. She and chick were only ones out at night so repeat not likely, but I want young birds out later. We are...

This stuff holds more true for my American Games. Some other keeping American Games have claimed never seen what I report. Thus examination would have very limited focus.

They can go into lay prior to weaning. They wean before brooding another clutch. Typically, lay does not start until after weaning, but when hen in really good weight with my birds, they can go back into lay first. They have some flexibility according to nutritional status.

If she stays on track, then weaning will occur about 21 days post-hatch. She is about to come back into lay because weight coming back up and she is looking for a nest site. She will still tend chick until a couple of days before going broody. She will drive it off for a couple days before...

7 days. We are at least 14 days for start of broodiness so enough time for chick to be OK if got getting wet. It will still be small enough for a Coopers Hawk to take if adult chickens do not prevent.

Trace got out of pen while I was mowing. On tie-cord now. His first time and a bit scared. He will calm, then placed near nest.

Love Heart getting ready to come back into lay. She is in very very good weight, just like chick. I will have to prepare to care for chick unless if move in with Trace. The chicks do that sometimes. Nest will be upgraded today.

Love Heart with chick have a very small home range that is at best 30 feet x 100 feet. I have yet to see them go to water station. All nutrition supplied by foraging. Even so they still visit Trace's pen at least once a day where chick readily goes to hand out under daddy's feet. Chick is very...

Yes. Even with dogs, rooster tied out like that hard to defend from Great-horned Owls. Owls are too close almost all the time. .

Yes, they sleeping in weeds now.

She has no eggs currently. I think when she comes back into lay she will use same location as before. Things went reasonably well except for temperatures eggs were exposed prior to start of incubation. You may not have read entire thread.