Everlastinghoop
Songster
Hello! Our first time with a broody hen! She is our own hybrid from my first incubated hatch last year. She is on day 15 on her clutch. I candled the eggs and She will have chicks. My question is, I am worried about the chicken tractor she is in for navigating baby chicks in..or rather out of..it is a Two story tractor, and the upper floor is made of mesh because we live in West coast Central Florida...hot......it has a very narrow and steep drop down ramp, to get up and down ....it was all our hens home, for a year, but they outgrew it and my hubs finally built us a new and bigger one for the girls.....but she went broody basically the DAY BEFORE we moved them all into the new one. Wouldn’t you know it. So we have the chicken tractor in the hen yard still with the whole flock (15 hens and a Roo) .....won’t newly hatched baby chicks legs get stuck in the mesh, or they will fall off the ramp?? I don’t know! I have only ever had the safest chick brooders and done it ourselves! This is a first, and our Hen’s first clutch too!! Thanks. I can try to post a Pic of my concern. Any advice is very appreciated. I have been in panic mode of, omg I need to buy a dog crate ASAP . Lol. But don’t want to disrupt her ....and Mayvbe it’s not a big a deal as I think either! Thank you again! Sorry for long post.