She was standing by the door for quite awhile. She would not go into the pen where the chicken door was open.
Nah, She hung out with a couple of the hens but spent most of the day by herself. She is still here this morning. I got another 2 1/4" of that white stuff again last night. It is still coming down this morning.
When you talked about this damp stuff being so hard on poults, it clicked. Last week's hatch had lovely sunny weather and nary a poult had any issue after hatch. This week has been wet wet wet! A week of 40 degrees where it's just raining the whole time left my hatchery hanging between 40 to sometimes 65 percent humidity! Usually the hatchery building is 15 percent! And it's just that bone creeping damp. So now that I turned on the electric heater, the rest of the poults have really perked up, the chicks too. The cool damp was just too much for them, even with their infrared brooder panel heater
mine seem to ignore chipmunks
You should have just let them have it, they would have properly disposed of it. Once you get them trained to take on the squirrels, Ralphie will want to borrow them.
