hi everyone!
i'm new to the group, and chickens, so let me lay out a bit of the background as to how we became chicken parents. (shortened version).
a stray chicken came beside the steps at our front door and laid 11 eggs! she sat on them for three weeks and they hatched! (except two). we arranged an old shed to be their coop, so we spent a saturday morning getting the group into the coop. they are now 5 weeks old and it seems that we may have 5 boys and 4 girls.
everything has been fine, chicks following mum everywhere, until the last couple of days.
she starting bawking yesterday and i couldn't understand it. she also started charging the chicks and now they are terrified of her. this morning my husband and i went in the coop and found an egg! we took it out hoping that this will get rid of her perhaps being protective. i've been watching her and she's still charging them. though i do think that it might be the boys more than the girls.
can anyone tell me what to do?? i don't know a thing and i sure do not want to have any injuries or traumatized young boys and girls.
thank you!
>)=
i'm new to the group, and chickens, so let me lay out a bit of the background as to how we became chicken parents. (shortened version).
a stray chicken came beside the steps at our front door and laid 11 eggs! she sat on them for three weeks and they hatched! (except two). we arranged an old shed to be their coop, so we spent a saturday morning getting the group into the coop. they are now 5 weeks old and it seems that we may have 5 boys and 4 girls.
everything has been fine, chicks following mum everywhere, until the last couple of days.
she starting bawking yesterday and i couldn't understand it. she also started charging the chicks and now they are terrified of her. this morning my husband and i went in the coop and found an egg! we took it out hoping that this will get rid of her perhaps being protective. i've been watching her and she's still charging them. though i do think that it might be the boys more than the girls.
can anyone tell me what to do?? i don't know a thing and i sure do not want to have any injuries or traumatized young boys and girls.
thank you!
>)=