hen accepting chicks

  1. melcaara

    Chicks and Mom

    I ordered chicks a couple days ago, they arrived a few hours ago. I stuck them all under my Cochin bantam (Betty) who has been sitting for a while and she took them all immediately. Somehow she has fit 18 chicks under her! 6 bantam Cochin, 6 Japanese bantam, and 6 Cornish x. I tend to have luck...
  2. buttersbrood

    Putting chicks under NON-broody hen....

    Hi there! We have 3 chicks (2 orpingtons - lavender and blue - and 1 barred rock, all about 3/4 days old). I know you're supposed to put day old chicks under a broody hen - and these are 3 to 4 day old and op top of that, the hen is not broody... We do have a heatlamp and the whole chick set...
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