Well I have 3 babies but....

[tacothechicken]

Ok guys soup and Wallace finally figured out how to parent and have 2 fat and happy 2 day old chicks. But Cannoli and Crumpet hatched a chick this morning and flipped out not understanding that their egg became a baby. I came home to it cold and gasping and it's currently in my shirt while the incubator gets to temp but can I convince Soup and Wallace to take a 3rd chick? I figure if they do I can rotate removing the babies so they all get fed, but I'm concerned about the older 2 outcompeting the 3rd newborn. Cannoli and Crumpet don't know what to do whith the baby and are too nervous to try and brood it. This was them at 6 before I came back a while later to find the baby freezing and both off the nest.

 

[sourland]

The smaller squab will most likely not be able to compete with the two larger for food. If it were me, I would warm it up and return it to the nest this evening when the hen is brooding the second egg. Good luck.

 

[tacothechicken]

The smaller squab will most likely not be able to compete with the two larger for food. If it were me, I would warm it up and return it to the nest this evening when the hen is brooding the second egg. Good luck.

That would work...if there was a 2nd egg

 

[tacothechicken]

@sourland and we're moving so I can't find my fakes!!!

 

[tacothechicken]

Thank Lord, found a fake and she's back on the nest. I'll wait till Soup feed the baby and try in a few hrs

 

[tacothechicken]

Gonna put S&We oldest under Cannoli in hopes to convince them to produce a feed response to such a glutton

 

[tacothechicken]

Yay! The glutton convinced him! Think imma let them raise S&Ws first born and S&W can keep their smaller 2nd chick along whith the newborn as they seem to have a much more eager feed response to the babies compared to C&C who are handling this for the first time

 

[tacothechicken]

Soup and Wallace fed the newborn 3 times now, so I stuck the 2nd baby back under. Let's hope they do well.