I'm joining my broody/chicks with the big girls....any suggestions?

[Chirpy]

3peeps: That was a great set of articles .. wish I'd have seen it a month ago. Thanks for posting it.

 

[DoDa]

3peeps... yes, thank you for posting that link. I picked that up somewhere a while back and would've been too nervous to let a hen set if I hadn't read it. Well, that and BYC because there were SO many things I didn't know and got tons of good info from the archives.

I've got an ornery/mean SL Wyandotte hen, too (actually, she's just the worst of a bad bunch of SLs). She's going to be gone shortly but my rooster came through for me again this morning. He's a Dark Cornish and the ornery SL went after another of my DC hens. Rusty rooster intervened and chased down the SL, then went to dance around the DC hen and then they pranced off together.

 

[Ellie]

I just integrated my broody and chicks... they went in at 4 weeks. They do free range and so there are really no problems. Oh, the big girls won't let them get to any food, but because it such a large area, they do ok. My broody did not protect them because she was the lowest on the pecking order.. the smallest.

They eat really, really fast LOL

Now, my new broody is one of the largest, and she does this "Elvis" thing where she spreads her wings like a cape and turns her back on everyone!!

Ellie

 

[Shrader]

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3peeps: I have a mother and her 1 chick. The chick is just over 3 weeks old right now, so I'm still a few weeks off. But I'd love to get them back in the main coop/ run as soon as possible.
How is your transition going?

 

[3peeps]

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3peeps: I have a mother and her 1 chick. The chick is just over 3 weeks old right now, so I'm still a few weeks off. But I'd love to get them back in the main coop/ run as soon as possible.
How is your transition going?

El crappola! (Not well.) I was just at the home improvement stores and the temporary fencing situation I wanted to set up will be too expensive. So perhaps I will pay my daughter to be "shepherd" when she gets home from school! The other day I gave her the chore of watching everyone and keeping them out of the flower gardens and it went really well! LOL. (two extra stars on her chore chart for that.)

 

[3peeps]

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My broody did the same thing with her wings...we called her the B-52 bomber. She looked like a huge fat airplane.

Funny about the food...my broody won't let the australorp hen near any food, unless she's sidetracked with the chicks. Before that, my wyandotte (now in solitary) wouldn't let the australorp eat either. Actually, it's not funny at all. Makes me flipping mad, but I suppose animals will be animals.

But, to add complexity to the disfunctional relationship, I believe the wyandotte and australorp really miss eachother.

The DRAMMA of it all!!!