Removing Week Old Chicks from Mama.. Questions

[speckledhen]

For those of you who remove chicks just after hatch or a short time later from their mama to sell or brood them yourself, how does she act when you do that? How long is she frantic over them missing? I have to sell the chicks Glenda hatched and they are a week old. It bothers me because I've never taken chicks from their mom, but thought I'd ask you fine people how she does.

 

[Omran]

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Omran

 

[chilling in muscadine]

I had to remove some chick's from a coop earlier this summer. They were just a few day's old. The mama tried to protect them while I was collecting them and she fussed for a little while, but a couple of hour's later she acted like it never happened. She still love's and trust me now. It will be O K. PEACE

 

[chickn]

mine have been fine too, they go back to being a single hen..lol dont seem to mind after a bit.

 

[Frizzledhen]

Like chilling in muscadine said. The hen will usually fuss for awhile but after a couple of hours you would never know she just lost her brood.

 

[speckledhen]

Thank you all for your answers! That makes me feel much better. I guess I empathize with my girls so much, it was really worrying me, even though I know it's done all the time.

 

[chilling in muscadine]

I didn't want to take my girl's babies either but something inside the coop had killed 2 biddies so I was trying to save there life and figure out what was happeneing at the same time. Now the biddies I rescued are the most spoiled chick's I have ever seen. Uh uh,,,, well all my biddies are spoiled. Don't ya just love it!!

PEACE

 

[speckledhen]

Well, if you visited, that's all you'd see here-spoiled chickens!

Appreciate the reassurances!