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[venymae]

Hello all you lovely people! Well, I have 4 new chicks! Two of the eggs have not done anything, so I wonder it they will hatch at all...but I have 4!

 

[kwhites634]

Well as it is not quite twelve weeks old, I would like to give it a chance at least. They are eating Purina starter grower, so they should be getting what they need, right?

Yeah, you'd think so; Purina's supposed to be good feed, and well respected. I know, after what you've just been through, that you don't want to hear this, but it's entirely possible that there's something not quite right inside, something she was born with. I think Joey's right, though, about the flock dynamic changing when a bird is re-introduced...I've seen it here.

 

[daxigait]

Thinking out loud here, could you hang something like a bell around its neck to distract it?

will the others peck it?

Hello all you lovely people! Well, I have 4 new chicks!  Two of the eggs have not done anything, so I wonder it they will hatch at all...but I have 4!

congrats! Go chickies
I have 14 in lockdown that have started hatching so I am with you on the nail biting stress brigade.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I plan to fire up the bator this week....

 

[daxigait]

Yeah, you'd think so; Purina's supposed to be good feed, and well respected.  I know, after what you've just been through, that you don't want to hear this, but it's entirely possible that there's something not quite right inside, something she was born with. I think Joey's right, though, about the flock dynamic changing when a bird is re-introduced...I've seen it here.

well, as soon as I finish cleaning and spraying down the other two coops and pens I will move it.

 

[kwhites634]

will the others peck it?
congrats! Go chickies

I have 14 in lockdown that have started hatching so I am with you on the nail biting stress brigade.

They'll peck at the bell; maybe not so much at her

 

[Pensmaster]

will the others peck it

Maybe but that might be what's needed for her to stop. I was thinking it would distract her enough to stop pecking others. Never tried this so just trying to come up with ideas.

 

[daxigait]

I plan to fire up the bator this week....

what is going in?

 

[BantyChooks]

I plan to fire up the bator this week....

Great!

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

I will have a few hatching soon to and already have two sleeping in bed with me on a towel ha

I geuss I really get to my chickens as pets even though I raise chickens I don't eat eggs