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We made the mistake once before of keeping a rescue chick in the house too long. When we tried to re-introduce her to the flock, she was terrified and, sensing that, they all attacked her. We've tried repeatedly to get her back outside, but psychologically, it looks like she'll neverr be able to fit into chicken society. So now she's an indoor bird, something that I feel is a bad idea. But I don't know what else we can do other than continue to keep trying to acclimate her to the other birds (which has not worked in the slightest so far). I don't want to make the same mistake with this new chick, but this is like a train wreck in slow motion. I don't see an optimal outcome -- which IMHO would be giving the chick a normal life with all our other birds.We tried last night and to our surprise, the hen didn't seem to mind having another baby under her. But the baby wasn't having it. It's probably already imprinted on us and when we walked away, it started chirping in distress and ran after us. It wasn't having any part of the hen. We'll try again tonight. Maybe there will be some incremental progress, and maybe the mama bird will continue to show patience. In the interim, the poor thing is lonely and crying constantly when we're not holding it. It's in a box where there's food and water and a heating pad, but it wants to start exploring and this morning figured out a way to get over the wall of the box. Not a good thing, since we also have a little rescue cat in the house that seems quite interested in this noisy little puffball.
We made the mistake once before of keeping a rescue chick in the house too long. When we tried to re-introduce her to the flock, she was terrified and, sensing that, they all attacked her. We've tried repeatedly to get her back outside, but psychologically, it looks like she'll neverr be able to fit into chicken society. So now she's an indoor bird, something that I feel is a bad idea. But I don't know what else we can do other than continue to keep trying to acclimate her to the other birds (which has not worked in the slightest so far). I don't want to make the same mistake with this new chick, but this is like a train wreck in slow motion. I don't see an optimal outcome -- which IMHO would be giving the chick a normal life with all our other birds.
This is done by night from underneath the hen when all is quiet and the chicks an momma hen are fast asleep. Chasing after them during the day is not necessary.it was really hard to grab one of the little guys free-ranging