- Apr 18, 2017
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Hello...
I attach here the link to my previous post, about the chick abandoned by his mother because of its color.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hen-pecks-her-own-chick.1250920/page-2#post-20072119
Now, the chick is growing nicely. But there is another problem: I'm afraid that because it does not grow up with other chicks, it does not know how to "behave" like a chicken. It follows me, as if I am its mother. When I put it next to other younger chicks (who have hatched another chicken in my yard a few days ago) it walks away and does not communicate with them.
It does not take sand baths like everyone else.
How could it be taught to be a chicken if it had not been exposed to it in its youth?
I attach here the link to my previous post, about the chick abandoned by his mother because of its color.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hen-pecks-her-own-chick.1250920/page-2#post-20072119
Now, the chick is growing nicely. But there is another problem: I'm afraid that because it does not grow up with other chicks, it does not know how to "behave" like a chicken. It follows me, as if I am its mother. When I put it next to other younger chicks (who have hatched another chicken in my yard a few days ago) it walks away and does not communicate with them.
It does not take sand baths like everyone else.
How could it be taught to be a chicken if it had not been exposed to it in its youth?
