Baby chicks
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We have a small flock of chickens (10 hens and 1 roo). Some of my girls are getting on in years so we just got 10 baby chicks, Rhode Island Reds. I picked them up at the local Agway today. They are day old babies, so cute. I have one cochin hen that has been broody for about a month so rather then hauling out the incubator for the babies DH and I just tucked them under her after it got dark. We just checked and she is still sitting on the babies so I think we will have a successful adoption and these little babies will hopefully know the care only a mother hen can give. Has anyone here ever tried introducing new babies to a broody hen?
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We found a Canadian goose egg in the alfalfa field when cutting hay one year. We had a hen that was sitting eggs and stuck the Canadian egg under her. She hatched it and raised it. It was funny as heck to see that big butt sticking out from the hens chest, it just didn't quite fit under her like the chicks did. Sadly, a coyote got the bird in the end.
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I was talking to my sister yesterday and she mentioned that there was a duck egg abandoned in their pasture (dog chased the parents). She and her husband tucked it under one of their hens and it hatched! They've nicknamed him Wonder Duck. I do wonder if he will have an identify crisis though. :)
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Originally Posted by Rose L
We found a Canadian goose egg in the alfalfa field when cutting hay one year. We had a hen that was sitting eggs and stuck the Canadian egg under her. She hatched it and raised it. It was funny as heck to see that big butt sticking out from the hens chest, it just didn't quite fit under her like the chicks did. Sadly, a coyote got the bird in the end.
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