NEED HELP! Hen stopped sitting on her eggs on day 19

[Raysal]

Ok.
I'd give him until tomorrow evening. How are you managing humidity in there?

Good keeping damp paper towels around the container

 

[Raysal]

Ok.
I'd give him until tomorrow evening. How are you managing humidity in there?

I have a hen that has 4, 2 week old chicks should i see how she reacts with the chicks i don't want it to be lonely and i have a lot of hens in my coop i feel like if i keep them inside till they grow and show them to the big hens they are going to start fighting and peking on them without a mom to go to what do you suggest?

 

[MysteryChicken]

I've had chicks pip, & wait 2 days before hatching. It's weird, but has happened.

I'd give the pipped chick 1, & a ½ days before assisting.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I have a hen that has 4, 2 week old chicks should i see how she reacts with the chicks i don't want it to be lonely and i have a lot of hens in my coop i feel like if i keep them inside till they grow and show them to the big hens they are going to start fighting and peking on them without a mom to go to what do you suggest?

Brooder raised chicks do fine.
I usually introduce my chicks at about 3 - 3½ months to the adult birds.

 

[Raysal]

Brooder raised chicks do fine.
I usually introduce my chicks at about 3 - 3½ months to the adult birds.

I let my previous chikens and my new chikens see each other through chiken wire but they start fighting like crazy. And they still do i can't keep them together. I feel like that will happen if i put the chiks in late. Im going to try to put the chick under my nice broody hen at dark with her 4 chicks i will monitor her behavior real early if i see she is bothering them, i will take and will raise them and i will have to come up with a way for them to like each later.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I let my previous chikens and my new chikens see each other through chiken wire but they start fighting like crazy. And they still do i can't keep them together. I feel like that will happen if i put the chiks in late. Im going to try to put the chick under my nice broody hen at dark with her 4 chicks i will monitor her behavior real early if i see she is bothering them, i will take and will raise them and i will have to come up with a way for them to like each later.

She won't accept the younger chicks if she has 2 week olds with her. She'll most likely kill them.

The fighting is normal when new birds meet. I introduce new birds all the time, they just need to settle a pecking order.

 

[RainbowHen]

I let my previous chikens and my new chikens see each other through chiken wire but they start fighting like crazy. And they still do i can't keep them together. I feel like that will happen if i put the chiks in late. Im going to try to put the chick under my nice broody hen at dark with her 4 chicks i will monitor her behavior real early if i see she is bothering them, i will take and will raise them and i will have to come up with a way for them to like each later.

Yep. Nope. Sorry. Terrible idea. These chicks will need to be raised in a brooder. The broody hen will kill them. She is bonded to her chicks and it has been too long to introduce new ones.

 

[Raysal]

Yep. Nope. Sorry. Terrible idea. These chicks will need to be raised in a brooder. The broody hen will kill them. She is bonded to her chicks and it has been too long to introduce new ones.

Oh ok than you for the information

 

[Raysal]

Second egg almost out they did great! It was a miracle they hatched. The eggs weren't sat on for 3 days only at night

 

[Raysal]

They look happy now that its not alone