Hep44
Songster
- May 8, 2020
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UPDATE: Second chick has hatched, she has it underneath her, she seems to be acting motherly to it. I'm wondering if we freaked her out and she saw the baby and thought it was a threat to her eggs
We are hatching chicks for the first time under a broody momma. She is a mutt of some sort from TSC, so we were pretty surprised she even went broody. First baby just hatched, and we were peeking at it and it almost fell out of the coop, so we ushered it back under her and she tried to kill it. We separated it for a minute, let her calm down, tried to reintroduce it, and she tried to kill it again. We now have it separated under a heat lamp, hoping it makes it. What the heck happened?? Was it us being there? Does she not have good instincts because she's a mutt? Did she think it was too weak? It looked healthy. I'm just worried about the other babies when they hatch
We are hatching chicks for the first time under a broody momma. She is a mutt of some sort from TSC, so we were pretty surprised she even went broody. First baby just hatched, and we were peeking at it and it almost fell out of the coop, so we ushered it back under her and she tried to kill it. We separated it for a minute, let her calm down, tried to reintroduce it, and she tried to kill it again. We now have it separated under a heat lamp, hoping it makes it. What the heck happened?? Was it us being there? Does she not have good instincts because she's a mutt? Did she think it was too weak? It looked healthy. I'm just worried about the other babies when they hatch
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