Need advice to house infant peachick

vickir

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Jun 22, 2012
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Only one of the peachick eggs was good so we are trying to make the best choice for housing a single infant. The baby is still in the brooder portion of the incubator - we need to make a housing decision very soon. Any advice you offer will be appreciated. The choices we know of are:
1. Keep it alone in a brooder and try to teach it to eat, etc.
2. Put it in with a pair of young (about 3 week old) peachicks who are still in a brooder.
3. Put it in a brooder with infant turkeys or chickens.
4. Try to talk the bantam hen to raise it with her brood of 3 chicks - those chicks are about 2 weeks old.
 
Update to housing the new peachick .... we've eased it in with the brooder with the two older peachicks. We're watching very carefully as the other two are much bigger. So far no intentional harm but they did manage to tip the lightweight plastic feed bowl on top of the teeny one. S/he was indignant but appears to be uninjured. I think this might work as they are all fairly quiet together.
 

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