Bchickens1342
Hatching
- Apr 25, 2020
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Hi,
We are are our third round of chickens and decided to let our silkie who has been Brody forever finally have her chicks. To avoid roosters, we got baby chicks. We moved all 3 hens into our garage in a little nice area we made (including the broody one and her eggs) and waited a day.
next day we took the otherhens out and put them back in their coop, leaving thehen and her eggs.
that afternoon we brought thechicks in and they crawled under the mom and we thought she had accepted them.
she has puffed herself up for them to crawl under nicely.
Today we left for about an hour and came back to all our chicks crying out, shivering, with their eyes closed as the mom sat away from them.
She hasn’t shown them food, one tried to eat the food she was eating and she pecked it till it ran away.
I had to hold two of thechicks to warm them up because they were too weak to crawl under her.
Now we picked up the mom and put her in their nesting area. All 4 are back underneath her (I think- it’s hard to see) and the mom is eating. Do you think she is rejecting them?
We are are our third round of chickens and decided to let our silkie who has been Brody forever finally have her chicks. To avoid roosters, we got baby chicks. We moved all 3 hens into our garage in a little nice area we made (including the broody one and her eggs) and waited a day.
next day we took the otherhens out and put them back in their coop, leaving thehen and her eggs.
that afternoon we brought thechicks in and they crawled under the mom and we thought she had accepted them.
she has puffed herself up for them to crawl under nicely.
Today we left for about an hour and came back to all our chicks crying out, shivering, with their eyes closed as the mom sat away from them.
She hasn’t shown them food, one tried to eat the food she was eating and she pecked it till it ran away.
I had to hold two of thechicks to warm them up because they were too weak to crawl under her.
Now we picked up the mom and put her in their nesting area. All 4 are back underneath her (I think- it’s hard to see) and the mom is eating. Do you think she is rejecting them?
