No brooder bedding?

[Miss Lydia]

I think that is def worth a try. How old are the babies? It maybe you will just have to wait a while to till they are older but try what your talking about.

 

[Enigmius]

I think that is def worth a try. How old are the babies? It maybe you will just have to wait a while to till they are older but try what your talking about.

OK, I'll give that a go. The youngsters are about 1 month old. I still have two in the house, they are about a week behind. I'm about to integrate those two with the others youngsters outside soon. I don't suspect it will be as much of a problem, especially since the youngsters are about to get the lion share of the coop/run for a week, whilst the mommas are penned in a smaller pen.

 

[Miss Lydia]

You maybe surprised. I think I'd start some adult [human]supervision now with all the youngsters. Before you move them outside for good.

 

[Enigmius]

Well I divided it up and put all the youngsters together. So far so good. The youngsters haven’t picked on the two younger ones. They all seem to be so fixated on the mommas. So far it’s been 45 minutes and no sign of picking.

It might be hard to see the fence in the coop that keeps the youngsters separated from the mommas, but it’s a diagonal division that allows the youngsters into the run and the coop. The mommas stay in the coop. I’m standing in the run in these pics.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Looks good and great news about the youngins being accepted!!

 

[Enigmius]

Looks good and great news about the youngins being accepted!!

I’m keeping my fingers crossed as I check periodically from my bedroom window(using binoculars).

 

[Miss Lydia]

How far are they from your house lol? Kind of like a peeping dad!

 

[Enigmius]

It’s about 70 feet or so away.

 

[Enigmius]

So far the little ones are doing great. The mommas in their pen seem to be ok except this morning there were a whole lot of feathers. Is this normal shedding or is this stress, or are they attacking each other? It just seems like a lot.

 

[Miss Lydia]

That’s great about the littles. As for mamas it could be any of the 3. Do you have a camera set up there so you can see what might be going on?