Sigh.
Dad doesn’t want the AC’s to go out under my broody Willow. I have told him a hundred times why it is safe for them. He says that he is fine with Bolt’s chicks going out under her, but he doesn’t want to risk the AC’s lives. He says that they are too expensive to put under a broody hen, and that a snake WILL eat them.
Okay, no. A snake won’t eat them. The only times we don’t really have snakes out here is from December-February, if I’m being honest. I told him that the TSC chicks were at just as much of a risk as these are, if not more, since they were her first chicks ever. She took excellent care of my TSC chicks.
They are going to be even safer with her than the TSC chicks were since this is her second time raising chicks.
I am going to make a few adjustments to where the girls lay eggs. I am going to block off half of my egg coop (it’s a Walmart coop where they go only to lay eggs) so that Willow and her chicks get half and one nest box, and the big chooks get half and one nest box, as well as access to their run.
It would be a temporary solution, just for a week or less, so that I am comfortable with the chicks and I don’t feel worried if they fall down the ladder.
I’m going to try to take pictures when I do it, I feel like it is just too complicated for me to explain while making sense. I’m just going to hope that Dad will let me put them out there. I really feel like Willow- and the others- will protect the babies from any danger.
The chicks are so cute! Two AC’s with Pegasus in the middle.
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how many are there?
. The wee chick is absolutely lost all by itself she/he just sits under the plate. When I pick her up she seems strong and lively but without friends apparently she has decided to just stay put.
