My new roommate!

[Cats Critters]

Here is her back ground story: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=226356

Basically she hatched to one of my broodys who turned out to be a way over protective mother, she pecked her baby on the eyelid (all better now) and il she went a little bit away from her she would grab and pull her wings/feathers/legs. So she moved in with me.

Here is her picture at day 2 when she was still under the broody (no I don't know that she is a she but I'm hoping!):

She is living in a 10 gallon aquarium with food, water, a heat lamp, a stuffed bear, a plastic chick, and a big thermostat thingy that she sleeps behind (blocks the light) and spends part of her time attacking the front of.

 

[NGT ANGL]

awwww.....I've got chick love

so cute!!!

 

[Cats Critters]

She just woke up so I toke her out and she is helping me type

 

[janjan1]

I'm with you on this one. I had a broodie that hatched out two chicks. They are few days old. Broody started pecking one of the chicks, one so badly I didn't think it would live. All one side is nothing but bare skin badly pecked. Poor baby. Didn't think a hen would do this to it's own chick, but it did. I removed them both since if she did it to one, she may do it to the other too. So now I have two house chicks in the sun room, or should I say, the chick room. Have them in a huge brooder box, lots of fun stuff for them, a stuffed chicken with a couple feather dusters for them to hide under, water and chick feed. They are adapting well to this and hope to move them to a larger cage in the barn in a week or so once they stabilize. After all it's nice & warm N cozy. They should thrive, and I hope heal properly.
Jan

 

[Cats Critters]

I need to upload a new picture of her. but she is doing well and growing feathers, and I got a new roommate today or yesterday! My cat Blue Eyes had kittens!She had them in my closet and my mom had heard something meowing (I was away for the weekend) and got back there and there was a little black short haired male and a little black and white that had passed away

so I need to bury it later, but the other one is doing fine.

 

[emvickrey]

I haven't had a hen go broody for me so I hatched in a bator myself. I used a 20 gal aquarium until they got a little bigger if there where very many of them anyway. Then moved them to a clear plastic tub, the tall big ones. They always did well in there. In early spring I would keep them inside until they where fully feathered. Thats alot of litter changing but worth it to keep them clean and warm. I didn't have a place outside in a shed to keep them but this year I do. Or will have by then.

 

[Cats Critters]

I raised my 1st 22 chickens inside for 2wks and they moved to the coop after that, and the 20 I hatched in my incubator this spring where inside for 4wks, both batches where raised in an old ferret cage but with only one I decided to just use my empty 10 gallon aquarium for him (It's starting to look like it's dad did as a chick

) So I'm good at raising chicks but I have never raised one by it's self before.

 

[<3<3 I <3 Chickens <3<3]

I had a baby chick who used to look just like that!!!!

Cute, and looks like yours!!!

 

[Cats Critters]

Cute was it a boy or girl?

 

[<3<3 I <3 Chickens <3<3]

girl!!! her name is cleopattra!!!!!!