Meet the Nuts

[Chicken Soap with Nuts]

You need a much bigger coop to keep any more than the 2 you have. That is very small. You want to have 4 sq feet of floor space, 1 foot of roost space and shoot for 1 sq foot of permanently open ventilation per bird in the coop.
Esmerelda should protect the chicks just fine. If she and Rosalie had bonded before she went broody, I would allow them to stay together as a flock.
You will need to switch their feed over right now to either chick starter or Flock Raiser crumbles and put out a little dish of oyster shell for Rosalie.

If I max out with the chicks, which is highly unlikely:
6 chickens x 4 sq ft= 24 sq ft floor space. Approximate run space, 25 sq ft, approx roost and nest box floor space 15.6 sq ft. >40 sq ft total floor space [edit: over 9 sq st of this being under the roost, so about 34 sq ft floor space. also, we don't treat the "run" as a run, we treat it as the coop and FREE RANGE. Our chickens are only in there are bedtime and first thing in the morning and when then want feed or water, but they usually choose to spend most of there time in the yard or under our 250 sq ft covered porch]
6 chickens x 1 ft roost space = 6 linear ft. Available roost space, 6.5 linear ft.
6 chickens x 1 sq ft open ventilation = 6 sq ft. Open ventilation area: ~25 sq ft, plus my entire yard during the day. [edit: in the roost area, the entire floor > 9 sq ft is open ventilation with wire to the bottom level of the coop, plus the wire ventilation holes under the eaves, plus the wire door.]

 

[DobieLover]

The area under the coop is the run.
Any floor space occupied by nesting boxes is not included in the coop floor space.
The open ventilation is for the coop... where they sleep, not the run.
The coop is too small for six chickens. Sorry.

 

[Chicken Soap with Nuts]

The area under the coop is the run.
Any floor space occupied by nesting boxes is not included in the coop floor space.
The open ventilation is for the coop... where they sleep, not the run.
The coop is too small for six chickens. Sorry.

And you're obviously a troll. Goodbye. Not Sorry.

 

[DobieLover]

And you're obviously a troll. Goodbye. Not Sorry.

Actually, I was simply trying to help a fellow member who does not have the chicken keeping experience that I have. Chicken housing has requirements that very few pre-fab coops can meet. Yours simply does not meet minimum requirements to prevent health and behavioral issues.
I wish you the very best of luck!

 

[Chicken Soap with Nuts]

First chick didn't make it. :-(

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

And you're obviously a troll. Goodbye. Not Sorry.

@DobieLover is not a troll. She is a very helpful and well-intended person of BYC. Try not to take her advice as an offence

First chick didn't make it. :-(

I'm sorry for your loss. That is heartbreaking stay hopeful, keep us posted.

 

[casportpony]

And you're obviously a troll. Goodbye. Not Sorry.

I can assure you that @DobieLover is not a troll.

 

[janiedoe]

And you're obviously a troll. Goodbye. Not Sorry.

Somedays I feel like I'm back on fb.
I really wish that you would consider dobielover's advice. She is very knowledgeable, and is not being insulting. Our concern here, is the health and well-being of your chickens.

First chick didn't make it. :-(

I'm very sorry for your loss.

 

[Chicken Soap with Nuts]

Somedays I feel like I'm back on fb.
I really wish that you would consider dobielover's advice. She is very knowledgeable, and is not being insulting. Our concern here, is the health and well-being of your chickens.

I'm very sorry for your loss.

It doesn't matter. At most we'll have 2 chicks. I think we're going to have zero. I don't think they'll make it through the night. With luck, she can be happy that I'll be back down to one chicken in my so called "tiny" little coop, that literally fits the description she gave me and is significantly larger and much better designed than most coops I've seen. I had hoped to have a helpful supportive community here who would help me when I needed help with what I needed help with, not give me unsolicited advice anticipating that I'm doing everything wrong and waiting to pounce on me when they find something. She made me feel terrible, attacked and unsafe enough here that I've been going through hell alone today because I'm afraid of having "well meaning" busybodies attack me rather than help me with what I'm going through. I don't know what to do and things have been getting worse and worse since last night, but I couldn't get answers when I needed help last night, then her, then everyone defending her. I tried laughing about it to my husband at breakfast this morning how silly and ridiculous it was that she was looking for something to nitpick about and when I passed the "rooster" test, she started telling me my coop was too small because I needed x amount of space when I had x+y in all cases and he said, "why are you engaging with a troll? their only goal is to get you rilled up, zap your energy and waste your time." So I thought, oh, yeah, he's right, she's being a troll, so, I'll move on, but all I found out was that bullying as long as you phrase it as "advice" is allowed here. Well, congratulations, you are a resounding success Dobie. You have completely zapped my emotional energy today. I felt ganged up on by all of you defending her and here I am, wasting my time even more because leaving it alone didn't help. But no, I'm wasting my time arguing about something stupid instead of feeling like I can ask the questions I need to because I don't feel supported here, I feel attacked when I'm down. So I didn't ask. So now I have a dead chick, a presumed dud, an extremely sick chicken alone in a box and 2 eggs in a makeshift incubator, 1 in really bad shape and 1 just pipped, both thankfully alive for now, and a child who might literally lose his mind with grief if they don't pull though. FB... back on FB, my chicken group hasn't been super responsive lately, but I've never been treated like this there.

 

[janiedoe]

It doesn't matter. At most we'll have 2 chicks. I think we're going to have zero. I don't think they'll make it through the night. With luck, she can be happy that I'll be back down to one chicken in my so called "tiny" little coop, that literally fits the description she gave me and is significantly larger and much better designed than most coops I've seen. I had hoped to have a helpful supportive community here who would help me when I needed help with what I needed help with, not give me unsolicited advice anticipating that I'm doing everything wrong and waiting to pounce on me when they find something. She made me feel terrible, attacked and unsafe enough here that I've been going through hell alone today because I'm afraid of having "well meaning" busybodies attack me rather than help me with what I'm going through. I don't know what to do and things have been getting worse and worse since last night, but I couldn't get answers when I needed help last night, then her, then everyone defending her. I tried laughing about it to my husband at breakfast this morning how silly and ridiculous it was that she was looking for something to nitpick about and when I passed the "rooster" test, she started telling me my coop was too small because I needed x amount of space when I had x+y in all cases and he said, "why are you engaging with a troll? their only goal is to get you rilled up, zap your energy and waste your time." So I thought, oh, yeah, he's right, she's being a troll, so, I'll move on, but all I found out was that bullying as long as you phrase it as "advice" is allowed here. Well, congratulations, you are a resounding success Dobie. You have completely zapped my emotional energy today. I felt ganged up on by all of you defending her and here I am, wasting my time even more because leaving it alone didn't help. But no, I'm wasting my time arguing about something stupid instead of feeling like I can ask the questions I need to because I don't feel supported here, I feel attacked when I'm down. So I didn't ask. So now I have a dead chick, a presumed dud, an extremely sick chicken alone in a box and 2 eggs in a makeshift incubator, 1 in really bad shape and 1 just pipped, both thankfully alive for now, and a child who might literally lose his mind with grief if they don't pull though. FB... back on FB, my chicken group hasn't been super responsive lately, but I've never been treated like this there.

Honestly, I'm sorry that you feel this way. This group is really here to help. We are not perfect, but we have all learned from experience. We truly just want to help.
Again, I'm very sorry for the loss of your chick.