Help! We're grandparents!

[natemoore1986]

Great till they get out...Cardboard sides help...

They're safe inside my workshop. Momma can't get out, so they won't go far, I expect.

 

[obicat]

She cannot incubate eggs and raise chicks. The best thing you can do is to remove the eggs. If she decides to sit on the eggs the chicks will die as she wont take them to food or water. More likely is that she will just leave them, but its not worth the risk.

 

[natemoore1986]

She cannot incubate eggs and raise chicks. The best thing you can do is to remove the eggs. If she decides to sit on the eggs the chicks will die as she wont take them to food or water. More likely is that she will just leave them, but its not worth the risk.

Can't I continue to bring them start 'n' grow and water, as shown in the photo? They're already eating out of the feeder. What am I not getting?

 

[chickens really]

Hello...She won't stay on the nest because she will go into Momma mode to feed her Chicks. Also it's not healthy for her to stay on the nest too long. She will get too thin.