We gotta talk! :-o

[Hobbits Mommie]

 

[4 Georgia Hens]

Yay!! Isn’t it the best feeling in the world to see such little babies! My 6 hatched on Sunday...I’m head over heels! Good luck to you!

 

[coach723]

Congrats on your baby!
The hen will leave the nest when she's sure that all that are going to hatch have done so.

 

[MissChick@dee]

I've avoided posting a pic of my set-up because it's pretty ugly. Everyone else has such pretty homes for their chickies! But here it is, when all I had were Scrambled and Dumpling. (I took this right before I put new straw in)
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Honey....mine is so ghetto fabulous lol. Looks like tarp city for the homeless
Trust me I see how some chickens are kept where I live and they would be LUCKY to have just half of what you got.
A house does not make a home.

 

[GrannyHeeney]

Here s/he is!

 

[aart]

You didn't leave it with mama?

 

[GrannyHeeney]

Mollie's still sitting on 2 eggs so it's easy right now to sneak him in and out I got him to eat and drink (did it all by himself) then I went to take a nap. Somebody's going to have him in their hands again before the night's over, though--I have a daughter and my hubby's a bird fanatic LOL

 

[Abriana]

I have chicks right now too! Cold has never been much of an issue. They will peep a special peep to tell the mother that they are cold and she’ll sit on them. I’ve hatched more in winter than spring or summer. They are always ok!

 

[lilmillefleur]

 

[LamarshFish]

My brother and sister in law let one of their hens set an egg they were pretty confident had been fertilized by their roo, and it hatched, so they had a similar surprise. I remember they put mom and the chick in a large tupper ware container for the first handful of weeks (indoors), with a heat lamp on top, grower crumbles and water in the container, lots of shavings, and mom mostly sat on the chick and kept it warm. I remember the hardest part for them was simply keeping the food and water clean, which got soiled a lot. Chick is still alive and well, and is a very good layer! So, I think it's a matter of keeping the right temp, even though mom will keep the chick warm, and making sure the food and water doesn't stay soiled for too long.

If I can remember right, I think the hen that set the egg and raised the chick was not the hen that laid the egg LOL.