Chick doesn’t each much

[cmobley]

Pep has a heating pad under his towels, it has a low, medium & high setting, it’s super hot in my house since our ac broke and i live in texas so i keep it at low and a night i build him like a little fort on top of the pad and snuggle him with old tshirts and he stays warm, i’ll give the baby a try, last time i took one and she got mad and tried to come for it so we’ll see

No doubt she's gonna come for you. Thats what a good mama hen does.

 

[fanynany]

No doubt she's gonna come for you. Thats what a good mama hen does.

haha yeah, i raised her myself so she’s used to me but if i hold them for longer than 5 minutes she starts giving me attitude, she’s okay with me being in her coop with them and even the chicks like being with me but if she doesn’t count 5 chicks after awhile she screams at me

 

[humblehillsfarm]

If the chicks that your mama hen had hatched hatched any more than three days ago, the window for introducing a new chick has already passed.

As for why its mom pecked at it, I wouldn't go as far to say there was something wrong with it. People say moms roll eggs out of the nest that are bad, but in my own experience every egg I've found outside of the nest has been viable, and she's sat on eggs that were rotten that were never rolled out of the nest. Subjectively, it seems to me that hens are not always the best judge of health. Even goats, sheep, cows, and pigs are known to reject healthy babies.

 

[Cecisflock]

@Ceciliasflock will probably have better suggestions than mine. I don't really baby my chickens like some do on here but I'm kinda old school about things.

Hiya! I see your issue, no more chick in stock, no mama, that's hard to handle! Do you have a brooder and a heat lap? nutridrench helps too!

 

[fanynany]

If the chicks that your mama hen had hatched hatched any more than three days ago, the window for introducing a new chick has already passed.

her bebs were born on the 25th , this one i think is between 2-4 days old maybe i dunno but hers are older than pepper

 

[fanynany]

Hiya! I see your issue, no more chick in stock, no mama, that's hard to handle! Do you have a brooder and a heat lap? nutridrench helps too!

i used a heat lamp once but it was way too hot for my babies to handle & for the size of the box they were in, i’m currently keeping pepper in a box with a heat pad, i provided pine shavings for him to scratch around and old t-shirts on top of the pad to stay warm

 

[Cecisflock]

i used a heat lamp once but it was way too hot for my babies to handle & for the size of the box they were in, i’m currently keeping pepper in a box with a heat pad, i provided pine shavings for him to scratch around and old t-shirts on top of the pad to stay warm

That is wonderful! have you tried dropper feeding?

 

[fanynany]

That is wonderful! have you tried dropper feeding?

with food or with water, if with food how could i do that? if with water, pep drinks water but is picky with food

 

[Cecisflock]

with food or with water, if with food how could i do that? if with water, pep drinks water but is picky with food

just wet the food into a thin mash and feed it through a dropper, get some nutrition in her

 

[fanynany]

just wet the food into a thin mash and feed it through a dropper, get some nutrition in her

ooo okay nice, hmph i’d have to get a dropper or a syringe first, dunno where to find those