lonely chick

I just adopted a “runt” chick from a friend because all their other chicks were attacking it (pulling out feathers, pecking to the point of bleeding, stepping on it). We aren’t supposed to get the rest of our chicks for 3 days, but I had to rescue this poor girl/guy and save it from being killed...

I had a really really small batch of Coturnix Quail eggs in my incubator and fully believed none of them would hatch. However, yesterday morning, I walked into my room to find a single chick running around the incubator. The baby is healthy, but so so alone. There are 3 more eggs sitting in the...

2 out of my previously 3 chickens got attacked by something and didnt make it.. my remaining chicken came back sometime yesterday morning and i can tell she's not her best. I checked her over for injuries and she seems okay, shes moving fine and didnt act hurt when i picked her up to take her...

I had 2 chickens each 6 weeks old, one was killed yesterday by a raccoon. What should I do for the other one?

So, i have this approximately 4 day old chicken hatchling that lost it's siblings in unfortunate circumstance, i am not new to birds but i am new to chicks and hatchlings like this one, the problem is that it got very attached to me, leaving her (i think it's a gurl) for a moment would cause an...

So after a series of unfortunate events, I had to bring a chick away from its mother and bring it inside with me. The chick was the only one to hatch from that nest, and no other eggs are close to hatching yet. The chick has a bald spot on its back where the mother kept pecking it and appears to...

Most of my chicks hatched on day 20 but one hatched on day 23, now that the chick has dried mostly it sits at the window of the incubator crying for attention and i mean CRYING😭 I feel so bad for it but it just isnt quite strong enough to take on six curious and somewhat mean chicks, these...

Hi everyone! I've learned a lot about raising my chicks here, but this is my first time posting a question :) We're currently at day 22 of incubation, with only 2 eggs in the incubator. We only put two as a "test" to see if our young silkie couple had started mating because we still struggle to...

I only had one chick survive out of my last batch 😢. What do I need to do so that he doesn’t feel so lonely? Will he be ok? Can I put one of my adult hens with him?

A few months ago we got some baby chicks from tractor supply. The first few weeks went by fine and nothing really happened. Then they got to the age where they could be out in the coop. I will forever regret that decision. We put them out and they seemed to like it. They had fun in their new...

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) She is a 9 day old buckeye chick. She stays crouched down and doesn’t walk but I think she is smaller than the other 9. 2) What is the behavior, exactly. She stays under heat lamp all the...

I have been letting my broody hens sit on some of the eggs and so far 2 have hatched but they were a week apart. I had 3 broody hens at the time and they LOVE the first chick that hatched. They all think they are the mothers of it but never fight over it. When the second chick hatched the hens...