Hatchling abandoned and attacked, has strange yellow blob

[User395221]

What a sweet photo! I'm glad to hear they are doing well, thanks for the update!

Thanks, I hope they are ok out there. Fingers crossed.

 

[WVduckchick]

Ok, update if anyone's interested. Paulina and the babies stayed in the little house for a couple of days, then I moved them to the dog crate in the run. I left the tray out and covered the bottom with dirt so it was "normal". Today, I've let them out into the "gen pop" (as they say in prison movies). Everyone seems to just be ignoring them and not trying to attack them. Hope that continues. Here she is with 2 of them, the other one must have been behind or underneath. They (or one of them at least) like riding around on her back. The gash above the eye on one of them is pretty much all healed, you can just see it a little bit in the photo.
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Awwww

What a sweet photo! I'm glad to hear they are doing well, thanks for the update!

x2!

 

[Kiki]

Ok, update if anyone's interested. Paulina and the babies stayed in the little house for a couple of days, then I moved them to the dog crate in the run. I left the tray out and covered the bottom with dirt so it was "normal". Today, I've let them out into the "gen pop" (as they say in prison movies). Everyone seems to just be ignoring them and not trying to attack them. Hope that continues. Here she is with 2 of them, the other one must have been behind or underneath. They (or one of them at least) like riding around on her back. The gash above the eye on one of them is pretty much all healed, you can just see it a little bit in the photo.
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[User395221]

Everyone present and accounted for this morning. Phew.

Interestingly, last night Paulina was joined by the 2 silkies and their 4 chicks in the run. The silkies' babies are big now, they can get up into the coop, I'd thought they'd been sleeping up there because I'd seen them going in when I was outside at dusk. I'm not sure why they stayed downstairs with Paulina.