Adding mail order chicks to hen with newly hatched chicks of her own.

[NevadaEmma]

Funny, I had thought about that as well! Over night I changed my mind (I think). I will put the 5 mail order chicks in my other brooder with a heat lamp which is larger and see how many chicks hatch in the incubator and keep them under the heat plate until everyone gets older or possibly another hen goes broody. I have one that looks like she may, but I do not have a lot of experience with broody hens.

A neighbor wants a couple of goslings and since I am still gathering eggs older than 10 days from the nest of my goose that will not stay put on them, I will put a half dozen geese eggs in the incubator.

Things may change by tomorrow LOL.