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The temperature in my area now is 40s to freezing during the day, mid twenties at night. Not a great time to have chicks, but a hen's gotta do what a hen's gotta do. I have had hens kill "strange looking" chicks in the past, but always had good luck with seramas as foster mothers up until now...

Update: I did not get the above reply and I was tired of hearing the chick squeal when the hen nipped at it. The hen is in a brooder box with the chicks as it is too cold here to have them in the coop yet. I dyed the chick, using a mix of green, blue and red food color. It was not easy to...

I have a serama raising several chicks. One of the last to hatch is a beautiful gray chick (they are all mixed hybrids) but the hen has rejected it and pecks it. All the other chicks are yellow and brown. I am thinking of dyeing the gray a brownish color so it can blend in (mixing food color...