adopting chicks

  1. O

    Successful Chick Adoption 🥰

    Just wanted to share my new mama Marguerite and how getting her to adopt some babies went. She went broody for the first time a few weeks ago and we just happened to have new babies coming from McMurray in exactly 21 days so we thought we’d try to get her to adopt the new layers. We weren’t able...
  2. Australorp94

    Will my hen be a mother?

    Hello everyone! I'm new to this so any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have some hatching eggs that I was hoping my Australorp would mother for me. I heard they make great mother hens. Unfortunately, she stopped being broody the day they arrived and I placed them in an incubator. Will she...
  3. S

    Drying yolk sack on bottom

    Hi all, the one baby chick I had that's yolk sack was still attached is super lively and eating drinking like a champ for the last 3 days. He was the only one to hatch and is getting lonely. I have a broody buff orpington I was thinking about trying to get her to adopt since we have no rooster...
  4. chicksandchores

    Adopting chicks to a mother hen

    I had a hen hatch out six chicks, and I wanted a couple more white egg layers (my entire laying flock right now are brown egg layers) so I got her four little Cali whites to go with her six youngins. I had read that I would have to wait until night, and do it oh so carefully, but I can’t pull...
  5. shessowitte

    My broodies adopted 3 week old chicks!

    Ok I am bragging just a little (as though I had something to do with it) but my two white cochin broodies have successfully adopted 14 three-week old chicks! They’re now fully integrated into the full flock and doing well. Based on what I’ve read here, it seemed like a crap shoot, but hey why...
  6. tacothechicken

    First time orpington mama adopting attempt!

    Hey guys! So tonight my yearling buff Orp Lemon, finally went Broody! Thing is we're getting a large batch of hatchery chicks mail orders for arrival the 6-7th this next week. My Cochin we gave chicks 8 days into brooding but if we give them to her night of she'll only be about 5 days into...
  7. slantrhymes

    Broody marans adopting a full-grown bantam hen?

    Hi! My chickens are doing weird things, and I can't find any answers on the web. Hopefully one of you has some insight! My fiancé and I have a BCM hen, about a year old, who was broody on Monday. We moved from northern CA to Washington state on Tuesday, and I assumed that would break her...
  8. janiedoe

    You cannot reason with a chicken!

    I have a bad situation of my own making (per norm) I had a broody who hatched only 2 out of 10 eggs. The chicks, an Americans & a marans were hatched 3 days apart. After the 26th day I gave up on the remaining eggs and decided to replace them with chicks. I found 6 day of to 3 day old lavender...
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