thanks! your peeping one sounds like my little hen!! she peeps ALL the time when mama isnt around!!! and you just let the babies in with the big girls??? I would be terrified of them being pecked to death by the hens or rooster!!!
thanks so much!!! Actually mama layed an egg yesterday and today!! also the chicks did very well today all by themselves. They took dust baths, ate bugs and scratched at the ground, ran for cover when a crow flew over head and did very well when confronted by one of the older hens. Looks like...
hello everyone,
I need some help with my 5 week old chicks and their mother. Today when we let the two 5 week old chicks out to free range with their mother the mom had left them to be alone with me! She would come back and check on them and let them follow her around but wasnt nearly as...