These two will be 5 weeks Monday 11/4. Grace is much bigger then Frankie. They both are huge compared to the Favorelles and Silkies. The ones with initials are 4 week photos. Grace perching is today
i had a hen go broody and was looking to expand my flock, so I ordered 2 fayoumi chicks, 1 black Sumatra, 1 buff orphington, all female, and a partridge rock male, I put them under her, and it well, but the chicks are only 4.5 weeks old, and the mom is already chasing them off, is that normal?
I've got 5-week-old bantam's. I know one (not pictured) is a gold sebright but I can't settle on the others for certain. They all looked like chipmunks when they were little little. Got them assorted from TSC.
Thoughts?
I'm sorry if this is a redundant question. My Buff Orpington, Maggie, hatched out three chicks 14 days ago. She, and her chicks, are confined to a large (24'x30') run with coop attached (6 nesting boxes in coop). I have 4 leghorn pullets that are in an outside brooder and they are a month old...