will a chick get lonely????

[ChickenLove6]

I have three chicks and want to sell two of them. But the one I want to keep chirps like crazy if I take the other two away. Will it become lonely? Any advice on what to do?

 

[LRH97]

I would keep them together. Chickens are social and thrive in the company of other birds.

 

[ChickenLove6]

I really want to but when they grow up I don't have much space for all three of them and if they are cockerels I have no idea what to do with them thanks for the reply!

 

[JadedPhoenix]

Chickens do not do well in a flock of less than three. If you can't have three, you shouldn't keep just one. Sorry. It will be miserable for its entire life if you do.

 

[petrel]

LRH and JadedPhoenix are right. I've read here that lonesome chickens don't do well. I mean this in the nicest way possible; perhaps you would consider rehoming them all until you can make arrangements for at least two, or preferably three birds. If you can make arrangements for them now, you could seek out a similarly sized companion hen or two when/if two of them turn out to be cockerels and re-home the cockerels.

 

[ChickenLove6]

Okay thanks everyone! I do have other chickens, four hens and one cockerel, but the chick would have to be on its own until it grows up. Maybe I could get some sexed chicks, but if they are older or younger than the chick I've already got, will they not get along?

 

[3riverschick]

Okay thanks everyone! I do have other chickens, four hens and one cockerel, but the chick would have to be on its own until it grows up. Maybe I could get some sexed chicks, but if they are older or younger than the chick I've already got, will they not get along?

As long as you have a flock for this chick to go to later on, that's no problem raising a singleton.
Just get it some stuffed baby animals about its size for it to cuddle up with. Spend time with it.
If one of the other 2 chicks is a female, keep it as long as you can then sell on craigslist.
Post the boys on craigslist as flock guardians. If you know the breed, even better.
Know the color of eggs your boys come from. You can use that to advertise them as a cock
to sire daughters who lay colored eggs if bred to a blue or green egg laying hen.
White egg sire bred to blue egg hen=blue egg laying daughters.
White egg sire bred to green laying hen= green egg laying daughters.
Brown egg sire bred to blue egg hen = green egg laying daughters.
Brown egg sire bred to green egg laying hen= olive egg laying daughters.
Best,
Karen