Silence Is Not Golden Here

[woodenfarm]

I have one ee (almost laying age) any chance she gets she will go in with you two young chicks. She just says beside them. She would of been a good mother to these chicks if she was old enough

 

[woodenfarm]

So I let her in while I change food, water and bedding

 

[Redhead Rae]

I have one ee (almost laying age) any chance she gets she will go in with you two young chicks. She just says beside them. She would of been a good mother to these chicks if she was old enough

The banty pullets are great with chicks. They were letting the babies under their wings last night right after I moved them into their mobile coop.

 

[itspebbl]

You can introduce them, but I wouldn't leave her in there without your supervision, unless you have a separate feeder and waterer for the chicks in an area only they can get to, in case she really bullies them. She won't mother them, but it may be good to get them used to each other for when the chicks join the big flock

 

[woodenfarm]

You can introduce them, but I wouldn't leave her in there without your supervision, unless you have a separate feeder and waterer for the chicks in an area only they can get to, in case she really bullies them. She won't mother them, but it may be good to get them used to each other for when the chicks join the big flock

Oh no I put her out after a few mins.
The chicks are in a dog kennel in the coop so all the chickens can get used to them.
There is just the 2 of them so figured that will be able to stay in this large dog kennel for awhile or I hope

 

[woodenfarm]

Molly decided to stop being mama to her chickies. She roosted with the main flock and left her babies behind last night. This surprised me because she mothered her last batch of chicks for 15 weeks. She mothered this batch for only 6 weeks. Thinking about it, it sort of makes sense. She hatched her last babies at the end of September and so it was the middle of October when they were this age and the nights were cold, so they still needed her. So, we moved the babies in with my Banty pullets and moved the Lavender guineas, EEs and some of the older Cornish chicks out into the main pen.

Maybe the last set of chicks she had enough of not to want to mother long this time
J/k
I say the season has a lot to do with it.
I felt strange moving the baby chicks out at a week old but it is summer and hot here. Spring I had to keep in the garage for a long time fully feathered almost do to it being so cold

 

[BellePoule]

Anyone have a chicken or chicken breed they will not have again?

I have 3 white leghorn never again
2 are ok but, one I can just be walking and she will attack my legs have done everything but take her head off she just does it every now and then

RIR. I think they have some pretty fluffy butts, but my aunt had some that were just awful. The worst thing they did was eat the wing off of one of her Light Brahmas, and she wasn't even injured to begin with.

 

[Cyprus]

Cross beak is eating on his own.
Leg problem chick is being forcefed mash and electrolytes.

 

[Cyprus]

My D'Uccle eggs come in today!!

 

[Redhead Rae]

My D'Uccle eggs come in today!!

Has your dad been thoroughly chastised to leave the thermostat alone?