Mama hen roosting baby chick

[HeathenHavenHomestead]

I have 2 mean mamas with 1 chick they are caring for. The chick is 2 going on 3 weeks old and they are somehow getting that chick up on a 7ft roost in the coop.
Is this safe?!
I worry in the morning shuffle or through out the night the baby will fall off and hit another roost or nest boxes on the way down.
I moved the baby off last night when I noticed they got it up there and the mamas came down and nested up on the floor box made for them but now tonight they are back up on the roost. Should I keep moving the baby down??

 

[Shadrach]

I have 2 mean mamas with 1 chick they are caring for. The chick is 2 going on 3 weeks old and they are somehow getting that chick up on a 7ft roost in the coop.
Is this safe?!
I worry in the morning shuffle or through out the night the baby will fall off and hit another roost or nest boxes on the way down.
I moved the baby off last night when I noticed they got it up there and the mamas came down and nested up on the floor box made for them but now tonight they are back up on the roost. Should I keep moving the baby down??

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No, leave her up there.
While a bit early some chicks are quite happy roosting after 5 or 6 weeks if the adults will let them.
If your chick is up there with the adults, I would call that a good sign. A further good sign is you write the hens came down to be with the chick and that is great.
From what you've written I can see nothing you should be concerened about. Watch your hens care for the chick while you can. It doesn't last long.

 

[HeathenHavenHomestead]

Yes! They had 3 but…one was killed from being left out of the coop while they had the other 2 in. Then one went missing in the night although the husband swears he checked that it was in the coop so how it vanished… but this last one they have kept alive but it’s their first clutch.
We have another hen who had 10 her first time and now has 1 this 2nd time around and she’s still on the ground with it and she actually never hit the roosts until around 4-5 weeks and stayed on the lower ones. I was not prepared for them to get that little baby up there which again I have NO IDEA how they managed that
The hen on her 2nd round of chicks on the exact date they turned 5 weeks stopped being their mom, it was crazy

Watch your hens care for the chick while you can. It doesn't last long.

 

[StinkyAcres]

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Now that is cute. Amazing that it can make it up there.

 

[Shadrach]

Yes! They had 3 but…one was killed from being left out of the coop while they had the other 2 in. Then one went missing in the night although the husband swears he checked that it was in the coop so how it vanished… but this last one they have kept alive but it’s their first clutch.
We have another hen who had 10 her first time and now has 1 this 2nd time around and she’s still on the ground with it and she actually never hit the roosts until around 4-5 weeks and stayed on the lower ones. I was not prepared for them to get that little baby up there which again I have NO IDEA how they managed that
The hen on her 2nd round of chicks on the exact date they turned 5 weeks stopped being their mom, it was crazy

If you are letting them free range during the day and you have any predators, you're mother hen is going to lose chicks. If 50% make it to adulthood things are going well ime.
Nightime roosting with chicks is often a problem. I used to "help" mum get her chicks into the coop for the night for the first few nights. The coops had ramps and some chicks couldn't manage them. Mum will roost with the majority usually. If one can't make it in but two or three others can some hens will just leave the one that couldn't get in to fend for itself.

 

[HeathenHavenHomestead]

Now that is cute. Amazing that it can make it up there.

You can see my coop photos from my page and I really have no idea how it makes it up there we did build a ramp in so the chickens had more space to get up top then the one area they all tried to squeeze into but when we built it we had no idea they would roost but on the supports we built for the roof how that baby makes it up there is beyond me!

 

[HeathenHavenHomestead]

If you are letting them free range during the day and you have any predators, you're mother hen is going to lose chicks. If 50% make it to adulthood things are going well ime.
Nightime roosting with chicks is often a problem. I used to "help" mum get her chicks into the coop for the night for the first few nights. The coops had ramps and some chicks couldn't manage them. Mum will roost with the majority usually. If one can't make it in but two or three others can some hens will just leave the one that couldn't get in to fend for itself.

Oh yes I know. With it being their first clutch things were bound to happen. Our solo mama never had issues with her 10 she raised. We also had a net and would wrangle any that didn’t make it into the coop by the time the rest did. They cheep so loud it wasn’t hard to know someone didn’t make it in. I have also watched the moms go up the ramp and the baby keep walking like they were all walking together and the moms scrambling to figure out what happened it’s rather humorous. We’re lucky to have no issues with predators since we also have dogs that round the property. We only once had a raccoon make it into the coop but we forgot to close the human door And it walked in right as I remembered so that was a lucky draw. We’ve only had 2 losses which were both hawks but since then we’ve upgraded to an actual guard dog vs our dogs that could care less what the chickens are doing. the guard dog has a great sense of danger where the others try to fight thunder

 

[Ridgerunner]

I really have no idea how it makes it up there

It flies up. If it falls off, it will fly down and land. I had a broody hen take her chicks to the roosts at 2 weeks. I saw some of them fly up.

 

[Poodlemum]

It flies up. If it falls off, it will fly down and land. I had a broody hen take her chicks to the roosts at 2 weeks. I saw some of them fly up.

My laundry floor can confirm those little turds can fly at a much younger age than people expect

 

[NagemTX]

My chicks aren't even three weeks old yet and get fly up about four foot. Most are light breeds tho. The four Orpingtons can't get that high yet.