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- Mar 30, 2012
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Thank you for your helpful posts. The chicks are about 10 weeks old. So to young for some and ok for a few of you. Space is probably our main issues. We have enough but not a ton. The two that I found had hidden under neath the ramp to go inside but not soon enough. There is also a tree stump in the that they can hide behind. Oh and yes, the roosters did not really touch the chicks. They would get in on it but it was always my main gold sexlink, apparently she's way more brutal than I thought!
We are going to take our brooder box and make it more into a coop with a sun attached to the main one. Then we will increase the main run in size when we try to add them again, if ever at this point for me.
On a bright note when I went to collect what I assumed were dead bodies, one chick picked her head up and looked at me! I brought her up, cleaned her off and gave her her own space. She laid down most of the day but always looked at me and tonight drank on her own. I think she may make it! The other was still breathing but was much much worse off. She will not make it
We are going to take our brooder box and make it more into a coop with a sun attached to the main one. Then we will increase the main run in size when we try to add them again, if ever at this point for me.
On a bright note when I went to collect what I assumed were dead bodies, one chick picked her head up and looked at me! I brought her up, cleaned her off and gave her her own space. She laid down most of the day but always looked at me and tonight drank on her own. I think she may make it! The other was still breathing but was much much worse off. She will not make it
