June Hatch A Long

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I hope you find a buddy for it! I also was unable to get my mama hen, Moonshine to accept Spitzhauben chick hatched from abandoned egg on Friday. (I'm the one who brought in the egg and hatched it on a heating pad.) Later in the day, I even tried see-no-touch, but Moonshine tried to attack thru the basket.
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The chick wouldn't stop crying. So I went to a farm store and got a buddy, this little rust colored bantam--they are best buddies now (anyone know what breed?):
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The 3 chicks out with mama are experiencing a very different and adventurous life:
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The 3rd chick is there, under mama:
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Wow, what a beautiful hen! Congrats on the gorgeous babies!!!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Hi expert hatchers, I’ve been trying to help someone who has had a very difficult hatch on a different thread. I know that there are people with more experience than me willing to help out... Anyone know who I can tag on this other thread? She has a weak chick...

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I hope you find a buddy for it! I also was unable to get my mama hen, Moonshine to accept Spitzhauben chick hatched from abandoned egg on Friday. (I'm the one who brought in the egg and hatched it on a heating pad.) Later in the day, I even tried see-no-touch, but Moonshine tried to attack thru the basket.
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The chick wouldn't stop crying. So I went to a farm store and got a buddy, this little rust colored bantam--they are best buddies now (anyone know what breed?):
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The 3 chicks out with mama are experiencing a very different and adventurous life:
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The 3rd chick is there, under mama:
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I love love love all of this!! Happy endings all around even though momma wouldn't accept the extra baby!
I'm not sure what the little chick is! Maybe a Golden Comet or a Red Sexlink of some kind?
You NEED to submit that last picture to the calander contest! Momma is so beautiful and that moment is just precious!!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Hi expert hatchers, I’ve been trying to help someone who has had a very difficult hatch on a different thread. I know that there are people with more experience than me willing to help out... Anyone know who I can tag on this other thread? She has a weak chick...

Tag me, I can't guarantee I can help but I'll certainly try!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Hi expert hatchers, I’ve been trying to help someone who has had a very difficult hatch on a different thread. I know that there are people with more experience than me willing to help out... Anyone know who I can tag on this other thread? She has a weak chick...

I think I actually tracked down the thread you were talking about and just interjected my opinion. If that's not the right one then I guess I had too much coffee today and was just overly eager to try and help...oops! lol You--> <--Me

 

[SueT]

I love love love all of this!! Happy endings all around even though momma wouldn't accept the extra baby!
I'm not sure what the little chick is! Maybe a Golden Comet or a Red Sexlink of some kind?
You NEED to submit that last picture to the calander contest! Momma is so beautiful and that moment is just precious!!

The new chick is a bantam, very tiny....it's a bit older than the orphan.
(For the calendar, I would try to get a similar pic but with an attractive background. Those chicks' 'birth' parents are in this years' calendar. )

 

[jolenesdad]

I hope you find a buddy for it! I also was unable to get my mama hen, Moonshine to accept Spitzhauben chick hatched from abandoned egg on Friday. (I'm the one who brought in the egg and hatched it on a heating pad.) Later in the day, I even tried see-no-touch, but Moonshine tried to attack thru the basket.
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The chick wouldn't stop crying. So I went to a farm store and got a buddy, this little rust colored bantam--they are best buddies now (anyone know what breed?):
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The 3 chicks out with mama are experiencing a very different and adventurous life:
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The 3rd chick is there, under mama:
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You know what I think about moonshine.

She is so pretty, she can have a solid pass for not accepting the chick. I’m so so glad it has a beautiful buddy!!!

 

[Bookworm0124]

I hope you find a buddy for it! I also was unable to get my mama hen, Moonshine to accept Spitzhauben chick hatched from abandoned egg on Friday. (I'm the one who brought in the egg and hatched it on a heating pad.) Later in the day, I even tried see-no-touch, but Moonshine tried to attack thru the basket.
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The chick wouldn't stop crying. So I went to a farm store and got a buddy, this little rust colored bantam--they are best buddies now (anyone know what breed?):
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The 3 chicks out with mama are experiencing a very different and adventurous life:
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The 3rd chick is there, under mama:
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She is beautiful!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I think I actually tracked down the thread you were talking about and just interjected my opinion. If that's not the right one then I guess I had too much coffee today and was just overly eager to try and help...oops! lol You--> <--Me

Thanks CluckNDoodle! When I first joined that thread I thought that her baby had ruptured it’s yolk sac and would already have passed along with rest of the clutch failing to hatch, so things are going better with her hatch than originally thought!

 

[forevercamismom]

I’m not sure I’m keeping everyone’s stories straight, so not sure why your chick was rejected... in our last broody hatch, we had to put one broken egg in the incubator at lockdown. It miraculously hatched! Mama hen had incubated in a dog crate in the coop and we needed to move them to a separate pen. So, my daughter caught up all the chicks and put them in a box that already has the lone incubator chick and I grabbed mom. We marched them to their new home, placed all the chicks in then let mom in the pen. In all of the excitement, no one even noticed the new chick as differnt from the hen-hatched chicks, due to the old “chickens can’t count” thing. Do you think something like that could work for you?

4 Ben's hatched chicks in the coop. All are still in the same coop, run and free range. We don't have any separated at all.
We took the remaining eggs from hatch's and tried incubator. 1 hatched. About 4-5 younger then the youngest I. The coop.
My daughter and I did take pip outside when Greenie had her chick outside (last to hatch in the coop) Green was cautious and didn't want to leave her duck bath at 1st but was confused by 2 chicks being on either side about 2 ft away from her. Pip was crying. Green approached. Pecked twice then sat on Pip. Green's baby eventually came over and snuggled under momma also.
When we approached she didn't want to move but did spooke and ran into hay field edge with her chick. Pip doesn't run yet and just sat there crying.
After Green had her chick out of the hay we moved Pip closer to that area. Green peeked again and then what looked. Like picked pip up by the head, but dropped her!
We took Pip back inside for snuggles and a nap.
Not sure what to make of the encounter at all!