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LOL!!! I am not planning to keep most of the chicks once I can sex them. I will only be keeping a acouple of hens and have people who want the rest already. I like your idea of a covered litter box.I might pick one up...might even know someone who has one they are not using. Even if I let her hatch them where they are I agree that them getting up and down the ramp would be an amazing feat!how cold is it where you are? My feeling is if it's nice and you can get away with putting her in a nice litter box with lid on the ground she can come and go and her babies would be safe on the ground and not fall out of the coop trying to manover that ramp. . Your coop is way to small for eleven chicks and those three birds, the floor space any ways. You will need to put her where she will not loose babies down that hole. Hope your building a new coop lol, cute coop though.
I was worried about mine falling a foot from the nesting boxes and did a search. On another thread someone mentioned how the people who sex chicks at large operations toss them over their shoulders into bins! So they should be just fine if they fall that short distance.Thanks for the reply, Johnn and the rest of you. OK......I will leave here were she is. I am still a bit concerned about the chicks falling down the hatch though. Will they be OK of they do? I suspect that once they are 'downstairs' they will stay there until the chicks are a little bigger and can follow the hen up the ramp.![]()
I just posted two new faqs that might help. Age for breeding and best broody hens. If you have any more to add or any changes let me know!
they will sometimes pick on a broody, there picking on my two broodys now also. What I do is close the pop door, let both mamas out into the yard ad let them eat and drink then put them back on there eggs. When those eggs hatch she will turn Frankenstein on those who picked on her and defend them chicks. And they will not even think about picking on her. I say put her back in the nest she had them in, and see if she defends them from the rest. There nothing like a ticked off mother hen raising chicks. She may be picked on broody but will rise to the occasion once her chicks are born.I separated my broody and she now has 8 chicks. When can I introduce them to the flock? The broody was being picked on when she was brooding.[/IMG]![]()
same thing happened to me, who got off the nest and hopped on another, her eggs got cold. I'm giving her an extra three days to hatch them. Ours are due next Saturday.Tomorrow is day 21 for my broody mama..... hoping at least a few hatch since she was off the nest and let them get cold last week :/ have been checking up on her but no signs of life yet..
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