brood hatch chick safety

Trying to make the long story a shorter one…I have a mixed flock of heritage turkeys, various ages and geese and ducks that are the same age. 8 month old turkey hen started laying about 2 months ago, but as of about a month has been laying inside the duck nest. Two Cayuga ducks lay in there, one...

I'm new to this so I hope I'm doing the right thing, but if not please tell me! My first broody bird ever just hatched 4 beautiful babies! She's a pekin Swedish blue cross and she hatched 4 fine, and I had to help the last one because she kept getting up and it got shrink wrapped. She is ok...

I have a silkie brooder who stays in the favorite nesting box (1 of 3). She is little and picked on by bigger hens. They will kick her out of the nesting box and lay. As soon as that hen is done, she returns to sit on the eggs. We remove the non-silkie eggs every day and will let her hatch...

Good morning all. I'm sorry for my novel but please bear with me, I need some help. I have two hen mothers at the moment. One already has about 2 four week old chicks. We had 6 but about 4 days after they were born, a snake took 4. Now I have a hen brooding in the laying box. One of her chicks...

I’ve got a broody hen who is at the bottom of the pecking order. She’s a little Cochin and except for one other Chochin, the other ten are regular sized girls. I want to get bantams for her. My town doesn’t allow roos. Wondering if she would be able to defend the babies if I was to sneak...

I own 3 silkies (2 hens and a rooster) for show purposes. Because of the disease spreading in California show was called off the entire 2019 season and therefore I decided to take this year to raise more chicks, but with my own fowl. We didn’t know they were going to fertilise and grow so fast...

My two broody silkies have 6 eggs altogether and two of them I noticed had a pip this morning. I hear chirps coming from inside the two eggs and feel some movement when I picked them up. I moved them to a bathroom in my house and put a kids humidifier in there on low just to add some moisture...

I’ll try to make this as short as possible, any advice is greatly appreciated! I’m new to being a chicken mom. We have 2 Rhode Island reds, 3 silkies, a few Wyandottes, an ayam Cemani rooster ... and a partridge in a pear tree (jk ☺️) Anyway, my silkies just started laying eggs about 2 months...

I just got 5 day-old ducklings and 4 day-old chicks. All supposedly sexed as female. I have made the water accessible to all but in such a way that the ducklings can not make a huge mess. I have the kind of heater that they snuggle under with plenty of space to get away from each other. Any...

I have a broody hen laying on 2 eggs that I know are doing well. One is suspected to hatch tomorrow so I’m not touching it. The trouble is that the hen is in the nesting box all 19 chickens use and it’s a foot off the ground. I can’t move her and the eggs safely at this point. I closed all the...

Yesterday, one of the chicks in the incubator I have in my classroom hatched. It hatched quite early, and I am out of town this weekend (including yesterday--I had taken the day off). I've read that chicks can survive 3 days in the incubator, but I'm wondering what people suggest here for my...

Hi guys this is my first broody hen and she has a staggered hatch trouble ik 1st chick came 3 days ago 2nd chick 2 days ago broody was leaving nest all the time to look afta babies she has another 8 eggs under her. They keep going cold bc the babies which have hatched keep venturing off bc shes...

Hi everyone! Our broody has just hatched her first egg!! (YAY!) With this comes a load of excitement and questions. Lol We have decided to be as hands off as we can and let the mama take care of her babies. We are also going to leave them all in the coop with our flock to keep her pecking...

One of our Black Austrolorps got broody a few weeks ago. We already decided she'd stay in that big coop/pen with the cockerals we deemed chicken nuggets and had no problem letting her try to hatch them. We culled that roo about two weeks ago now. So that's the end of his genetics. So I marked...