mama and babies

Hello! I have a mother hen that is taking care of 3 chicks. They hatched 2 weeks ago today, and she’s been with them in a pen ever since. The first week, she was content with sitting with them; but as of the past week, she’s itching to get out. I would put her out, but as soon as she’s away...

Foxl pox has been running around in one of my coops lately. Unfortunately my chicken Megan caught it and has had it about a week and a half/ 2 weeks or so. Unfortunately her babies just hatched today and they have been with her a couple of hours. I really hate to seperate her from her babies...

Hi! My mallard mama hatched 7 babies a few days ago. Sadly, last night all of the babies were killed. The mama is going crazy trying to find her babies. Today, I got some new ducklings hoping she wouldn’t notice. Their first interaction didn’t go well. She was trying to run them over. Is there a...

Hi! I have 3 hens that went broody at the same time. I didn’t have the heart to tell 2 of them no. Now all 3 have 3 babies each I’ve had no issues with the rest of the flock and the babies, but if the mamas come across another mama, they fight, really bad. I have all 3 mamas separated right...

So I have 3 hens that went broody around the same time. I let them each have 3 eggs. Some are definitely going to hatch, hopefully this weekend but not sure how many yet. I ordered a few chicks from our local farm store to have just in case. These mamas deserve babies! They’ve worked so hard...

We mail ordered four chicks in April, last Wednesday. they arrived. We received 6 chicks, unfortunately one of them passed away during shipping. Wednesday afternoon we tried introducing the five alive chicks to our broody hen, Cinnamon. She's over a year old, and has been broody for about a...

Hi- my first ever broody hen raised 4 day old chicks and they are now almost 5 weeks old. Yesterday mama hen laid her first egg, and began acting less interested in her chicks. She isn’t aggressive or rude to them, just not calling to them when food is near etc. After she laid her egg she began...

Hello! We just had two broody hens both hatch fertile eggs I bought elsewhere about 3.5 weeks apart from each other. Now that the new chicks just hatched I am wondering about the older chicks (almost 4 weeks old) and when they can be separated from mama hen. It’s been pretty warm so I’m not sure...

Yikes! Broody hen has been sitting on eggs for what I thought was almost 2.5 weeks. Well now she’s sitting on a baby chick! Help! What do I do? She’s about 3.5 feet off the ground in her nest. I removed the big waterer and put a chick waterer in the coop. The coop is an old 10’x15’ barn. I...

I just got my first peachicks yesterday, and today my mamas decided to start hatching. You could knock me over with a feather! All the hard work is soooo worth it for weeks like this 😆😭

So I'm not new to chickens but I'm new to silkies and hatching chicks. My hen hatched 14 out of 17 eggs 2 weeks ago. I brought her and the chicks in and put them in a Brooder I personally made. Idk if I should have done that. I didn't want the chicks outside so I brought them all in. She flipped...

Hi, my Serama hen has recently hatched her first clutch of eggs 3 chicks, they are happy healthy and adorable. But Yesterday while on my morning feeding rounds I noticed something off with mama. She acted sleepy and had one eye open one closed her head cocked a little and when I touched her head...

Hey guys. So I have this broody hen who wants to be a mama. My set up is....interesting. they have a pretty big coop which is surrounded my a decent sized kennel. My flock size used to be 14 but I lost 2. Due to where we live, it is hard to make a separate area for her to do her thing safely...

Nugget with all 7 Of her chicks

:wee:wee:wee:wee:wee:weethis is where you can post all those cute mama and chick pictures! I would love to see them!

Here she goes again.... our chicken Raven. Our beautiful black sex link, has decided to have more kids.:rolleyes: Her first batch in November 2018 consisted of 17 eggs. 17 hatched. We lost 4 to the cold :hit. Out of those 13 survivors, we got 7 cockerels (who sold for a total of $77! :celebrate)...