we are 5 weeks old now and have moved to our new coop next to the RIR's we are loving it outside and socializing with Roxy and Ginger daily mom and dad say we are too young to go in with the RIR"s loving life Ginger and Roxy have been giving mom 2 eggs daily hope you like our new home its hot and humid 89 out today
Its early !
No sign of the missing rooster. I can't even find signs of a struggle. Makes me wonder if it was a canine of some sort. He and his breed hen produced dark chocolate eggs. I did put 6 of them in the incubator last night. Got another 1 today, but don't want to do the staggered hatch, so I resisted adding it to the bator. Hey, if you ever make it to Missouri, you could come visit!
I have some 5 week old chicks too. I just moved them out of the brooder and into a coop inside the main chicken yard. This way all chickens can see each other and get use to each other before I integrate them with the main flock.
I have a chick hatching Im so worried for it
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Make sure you post some pictures in the next couple of days! and keep an eye on the hen and the rest of the eggs, she may decide she is done and abandon the nest. Do you have an incubator you could move the eggs to if she abandons them? I had to do that before and then as the rest of the eggs hatched I kept sneaking them under the broody (at night) so she went from having 1 chick to having 5! She accepted all of them and they accepted her as well. It did take the chicks a day or 3 to fully understand that she was momma and what all her calls meant, but they got it eventually.
We have our first baby chick this morning all fuzzy and dry, Its Crazy chickens first , she seems to be very careful with it.It came from a red egg so no telling what breed it is. It's yellow with a dark stripe 
We have our first baby chick this morning all fuzzy and dry, Its Crazy chickens first , she seems to be very careful with it.It came from a red egg so no telling what breed it is. It's yellow with a dark stripe
