HappyRainbow
In the Brooder
- Jun 3, 2015
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NEW help and Friendship PLEASE !
Hello Beautiful chicken People,
So Im hooked and Im NEWbie !!!!
I care so much already i want everyone to be Happy
I bought a Broody Suusex and 6 random clutch of eggs she was sitting on, from the 50 she was sitting on in a egg crate with another broody.
I also bought 6 mixed chcis, some girls some straight run
I also bought 3 1 1/2 old Hens a Black Star, Americana and a Legghorn
So far the Hens are laying
I didnt realize how separate i needed to keep the broody and a small nest in coop was not enough, the American kept wanting in her box, and cracked some eggs, 1 did hatch, not her breed a brown egg and little yellow chic. I removed after a day and a half, she continued to sit. I covered her milk box with another milk box gently so the Americana couldnt jump in, the doorwar was small and the Broody would growl and peck keeping the others from entering YAY !!!!
then I came home and found the top box knocked off and her under it, stuck ?
eggs cold, she returned and sat, but my mid day the next day she had found the chics in a open pin and climbed in just sitting with them.....and i brought her 12 more now 19
At first I could approach pick up chic move them etc. she might growl a bit but no aggression.
I moved them to their own coop on the ground with a light and cover and upstairs nesting box but the stay on the ground
A few days later and they are all bonded under her belly and wings eating bugs grapes grass clover and starter grower feed.
its only a few feet high so behind down in front of her little space now to clean out, rake rebed`ed new soil for digging, she attacks me and wont let me near chics,,,,,,
Great bonding, but this is my first flock and my 12 year old son and I want to raise them ????
I coundt even tend them, so.....I moved her into the coop with the other 3 Hens
the legghorn chassed her into the hen house, she was noisy upset fluttering then sitting on a nest making noise for a long time.
pecking order for her, poor dear, they dont remember her.
they are all new here as of a few weeks anyway.
she can hear the chic through the hen house, she cant see them.
QUESTION !!!!!! what can I do to help her ? will she go nuts ? should I try to mate her with a friends rooster and let her lay and raise her own ? or just let her lay unfertilized and take them, I feel badly, was trying to do the best thing imaging being raised by a momma would be good for the chics, yet now, I see Ive made a mess ???
and I guess i need to keep chicks sepearte until they are 4 month pullets ? and almost laying? or always separate ?
thank you thank you !
Hello Beautiful chicken People,
So Im hooked and Im NEWbie !!!!
I care so much already i want everyone to be Happy
I bought a Broody Suusex and 6 random clutch of eggs she was sitting on, from the 50 she was sitting on in a egg crate with another broody.
I also bought 6 mixed chcis, some girls some straight run
I also bought 3 1 1/2 old Hens a Black Star, Americana and a Legghorn
So far the Hens are laying
I didnt realize how separate i needed to keep the broody and a small nest in coop was not enough, the American kept wanting in her box, and cracked some eggs, 1 did hatch, not her breed a brown egg and little yellow chic. I removed after a day and a half, she continued to sit. I covered her milk box with another milk box gently so the Americana couldnt jump in, the doorwar was small and the Broody would growl and peck keeping the others from entering YAY !!!!
then I came home and found the top box knocked off and her under it, stuck ?
eggs cold, she returned and sat, but my mid day the next day she had found the chics in a open pin and climbed in just sitting with them.....and i brought her 12 more now 19
At first I could approach pick up chic move them etc. she might growl a bit but no aggression.
I moved them to their own coop on the ground with a light and cover and upstairs nesting box but the stay on the ground
A few days later and they are all bonded under her belly and wings eating bugs grapes grass clover and starter grower feed.
its only a few feet high so behind down in front of her little space now to clean out, rake rebed`ed new soil for digging, she attacks me and wont let me near chics,,,,,,
Great bonding, but this is my first flock and my 12 year old son and I want to raise them ????
I coundt even tend them, so.....I moved her into the coop with the other 3 Hens
the legghorn chassed her into the hen house, she was noisy upset fluttering then sitting on a nest making noise for a long time.
pecking order for her, poor dear, they dont remember her.
they are all new here as of a few weeks anyway.
she can hear the chic through the hen house, she cant see them.
QUESTION !!!!!! what can I do to help her ? will she go nuts ? should I try to mate her with a friends rooster and let her lay and raise her own ? or just let her lay unfertilized and take them, I feel badly, was trying to do the best thing imaging being raised by a momma would be good for the chics, yet now, I see Ive made a mess ???
and I guess i need to keep chicks sepearte until they are 4 month pullets ? and almost laying? or always separate ?
thank you thank you !
and Welcome To BYC! If I understand you correctly ... you had a hen with chicks, and she was very aggressive with you when you got near her/ the chicks ... so you removed the chicks and are raising them your self? 
