Immediate crisis, abandoned egg, please help

[ValerieJ]

Walking and eating!
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[slordaz]

Thank you Donna for all you did for Cookie, she's looking great with the care your doing

 

[aart]

Good Job Dona!
Now how to get that chick back with mama?
Read a great story about a similar situation, keeper picked up 1 broody chick, then put down 2 mama had no clue. Of course that requires a 'tame' mama that will let you handle her chicks without going too bonkers.

 

[Dona Worry]

Good Job Dona!
Now how to get that chick back with mama?
Read a great story about a similar situation, keeper picked up 1 broody chick, then put down 2 mama had no clue. Of course that requires a 'tame' mama that will let you handle her chicks without going too bonkers.

Fortunately, Sarah Jane is a gentle and docile hen. She lets me stroke her, hand feed her and handle her chicks without a fuss, plus she adopted the shipped chicks without hesitation!

 

[aart]

Fortunately, Sarah Jane is a gentle and docile hen. She lets me stroke her, hand feed her and handle her chicks without a fuss, plus she adopted the shipped chicks without hesitation!

Great, should be easy then, I'd get chick out to her soon as possible.
How many other chicks does she have?

 

[Dona Worry]

Great, should be easy then, I'd get chick out to her soon as possible.
How many other chicks does she have?

13. That's my fault-- I assumed she would not successfully hatch out many her first time brooding.

 

[aart]

13. That's my fault-- I assumed she would not successfully hatch out many her first time brooding.

Eh, no biggie, you got thru it.
Should be easy to add the single to that many chicks!
How the chick doing this morning?

 

[Dona Worry]

Eh, no biggie, you got thru it.
Should be easy to add the single to that many chicks!
How the chick doing this morning?

We had a small setback. I turned my back for TWO SECONDS and she tried to drown herself in 1/4 inch of water.
She's not terribly mobile yet, going to try taking the hobbles off over lunch and see how her legs look

 

[BigBlueHen53]

yay, Cookie!
Dona Worry! Yer awesome! Whew, this was a real nail biter!

 

[Dona Worry]

Cookie has been safely reunited with her family, and after a rocky start where she refused to approach Sarah Jane-- who pecked at my hand and scared her-- she is fitting in perfectly with the rest. She is obviously a little frail still, but was too active and lonely to stay in that little box forever.