The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

[TheTwoRoos]

Any tips on emerging to brooding hens together?Defiantly will try it.

 

[TheTwoRoos]

Striped guy seems to just be dragging himself,while the others are walking already,but here they are.

 

[TheTwoRoos]

Tried emerging them,do don’t work.

 

[ronott1]

Tried emerging them,do don’t work.

You are trying to get momma to adopt chicks? Thy again at night. It should work for the first 3 or 4 days of age, maybe a bit longer

 

[TheTwoRoos]

Not I tried to get the mother hens merge together.Its not happening.However I did set it up to where they can see each other.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Word of advise: make sure the chicks can't get over to the "other mother". Not all hens, but I have lost chicks to a protective mama hen that recognizes it's not one of her babies.

 

[TheTwoRoos]

Yup,your very right just witnessed hen attack the mama hen and baby chicks

 

[lena_]

I'll try to get some pics later, but just as an update:
Pebbles is doing really well and has now reached the annoying constant chirping stage. He's feathering in really nicely with great feathers coming in on his wings, drumsticks, neck and back. No idea on gender yet, but his mommy is doing a really good job of caring for him (I just love Misty she's the best broody I could ask for.
As for Leafie, (The other broody that was sitting on EHAL eggs and didn't hatch anything) after about two weeks of sitting on nothing after Pebbles hatched, I decided to buy her a female day old brown shaver chick. It didn't go so well at first, in fact it went quite badly, but she now has accepted little Rock(as my sister named her) as her own.
ALSO a hawk attacked whilst my broodies and their babs were free-ranging, and I thought it'd killed Rock (Rock actually costed $10.80!!! A ridiculous price if I do say so myself) But it hadn't, Leafie had actually thrown herself at the hawk and knocked Rock down the bank into the septic drain(Thank Heavens it was dry).

So that's it for now, I'll take some pics soon and edit this post with them.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Good mama for fending off that hawk!

 

[TheTwoRoos]

Update-The bantam chicks are doing great,the black one might be rooster because he is the most and more alert one,but their growing greatly,caught them scratching the other day.