UPDATE:
Our little GLW is doing great. He seems to be pretty lonely, but he's fine that way. He roosts with the pullets and sometimes with the older chickens. He seems to fit in okay.
His coloring is getting pretty!
He's pretty skittish, so I couldn't get the best pictures!
And...
So, time for an update.
This evening, we left the little chick inside the chicken run when we were leaving for church.
We came back, and to our surprise, he was sleeping with the little flock of 6 chicks! He is much smaller, but I guess they let him be with them since he was cuddling right in...
I'm estimating it to be around 3 weeks. My friend didn't actually know how old it is, but also estimated around 3 weeks.
I have one other broody (Crevecoeur cross), and tried to sneak it under, but it (the chick) is FAR to big, since the Crevecoeur mix is bantam sized. And the broody just...
I was trying to do that, but TSC only lets a minimum of 6 chicks, but I don't need 6 more.
I posted an ad on craigslist, though, looking for 1 or 2 more friends around his age/size.
And forgot to mention-
the closest chicks we have to his age are more than triple his size. they don't like him. at all.
is it a good Idea to put him with one of the mothers at night?
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Right now it started DOWNPOURING HARD so I took him inside. He's in an (open) drawer lined with paper towels and seems to be doing fine. He's just sleeping on the paper towels, and he's attached to me now.
He barely chirps. I don't know what I should do.
Should I attempt to make him a "house"...
So I was at my friends house and he had a batch of chicks. He said something ate ALL his chicks - except ONE.
This is similar to what happened to us...
anyway, he gave us the chick, because he didn't know what to do with it.
We have some chicks (2 mothers, 10 chicks total [4 w/ one mother, 6 w/...