Broody mom with babies is pooping in nest

[tizabel_]

She is sitting on three eggs that have yet to pip, I’m waiting a few more days until I give up on them, and two healthy babies that hatched three days ago.

Almost every time I lift her up to check that babies and eggs are all accounted for, I see soiled bedding underneath her where she poops.

She’s mothering her chicks very well, and continuing to sit on her remaining eggs, but I worry about the unsanitary environment underneath her and her chicks.

Before her chicks hatched, she would stop sitting on her eggs to eat, poop, drink, etc. The very first chick to hatch was killed by the rest of the flock, and she might be overprotective now because of that and wont leave her babies for even a second.

She’s been successfully moved into a separate safe area now, but wont stand to poop slightly off of her nest.

Advice much appreciated!!

 

[Purelychicks]

She is sitting on three eggs that have yet to pip, I’m waiting a few more days until I give up on them, and two healthy babies that hatched three days ago.

Almost every time I lift her up to check that babies and eggs are all accounted for, I see soiled bedding underneath her where she poops.

She’s mothering her chicks very well, and continuing to sit on her remaining eggs, but I worry about the unsanitary environment underneath her and her chicks.

Before her chicks hatched, she would stop sitting on her eggs to eat, poop, drink, etc. The very first chick to hatch was killed by the rest of the flock, and she might be overprotective now because of that and wont leave her babies for even a second.

She’s been successfully moved into a separate safe area now, but wont stand to poop slightly off of her nest.

Advice much appreciated!!

You can try to clean it out every day or 2 if she’ll let you but other than that, that’s all I would know to do

 

[Perris]

if two chicks hatched 3 days ago, she'll give up on the unhatched ones and leave the nest soon - the chicks will need food and water now. Have you put some nearby?
As purely chicks said, all you can do about the pooping is to clean it up as soon as you see it.

 

[Nyx1]

She is sitting on three eggs that have yet to pip, I’m waiting a few more days until I give up on them, and two healthy babies that hatched three days ago.

Almost every time I lift her up to check that babies and eggs are all accounted for, I see soiled bedding underneath her where she poops.

She’s mothering her chicks very well, and continuing to sit on her remaining eggs, but I worry about the unsanitary environment underneath her and her chicks.

Before her chicks hatched, she would stop sitting on her eggs to eat, poop, drink, etc. The very first chick to hatch was killed by the rest of the flock, and she might be overprotective now because of that and wont leave her babies for even a second.

She’s been successfully moved into a separate safe area now, but wont stand to poop slightly off of her nest.

Advice much appreciated!!

I'm having the same problem, but the poop is stuck on her bottom and I wouldn't be able to get it off unless I bathe her. I'm worried about the chicks exposed to the poop on her bottom. Did you have any luck keeping your chicks safe?