Goofy Chick Slipping Again 1 Shesfreaky
Mom hen abandoned her chick... this is getting crazier!
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A 12 week erstwhile chick went nether the goat argue, in with the domestic dog, and the dog pounced on the baby immediately. I screamed and the dog let become of the chick, and the chickie ran away unharmed.
I'm actually really pleased with the dogs reaction, that he didn't hurt the chick.
Anyway, in the process of all of this, the mamma hen took off and has rejected her baby at present! She either thinks the little affair got killed and she has moved on with her life, or she thinks that stupid trivial baby is too much of a liability to be hanging around with!
Practise you lot retrieve mom volition come around and accept this infant back? Do hens always carelessness their chicks when they are this young? I feel so bad for the poor lilliputian thing. Information technology was headed for a nest box to sleep by itself tonight when I left the coop.
I went out to cheque on the chick and this is but getting nuts! Read on for the whole story if yous aren't besides confused past the "chick with two moms!"
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That is the only chick she had. She is on the roost tonight, not even in a nest. The poor little thing was headed up the ladder to a nest box to sleep alone this evening! I'll have to go out and check and run into where the fiddling one decided to crash for the night.
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That is the only chick she had. She is on the roost this night, not fifty-fifty in a nest. The poor little matter was headed up the ladder to a nest box to sleep lone tonight! I'll have to go out and check and come across where the little one decided to crash for the dark.
This is simply getting crazier and crazier! I went out to bank check on the whole situation. Mamma hen is done with the infant, she's on the roost with the remainder of the chickens. Baby has crawled underneath another broody who has a ii week one-time chick with her! She'southward got a tiny niggling fuzzy head sticking out from under ane wing and large goofy chick head sticking out from nether the other!
The even weirder twist to this whole tale is that this hen, that has currently seemed to have adopted this chick, was the original hen to hatch this baby! The other hen, who's been raising this petty 1 since he was nigh 3 weeks former, had a nest and never hatched anything, and so she abandoned the nest and joined this hen in caring for her i baby. Ane twenty-four hour period the original hen who did the hatching, simply gave up total custody of the baby to her sis and she's been raising him always since. Up until today when he got attacked by the canis familiaris! Now he'due south back with his original mother! Poor kid! The chick with two moms!
I wonder how this is all going to work out tomorrow when this hen has one big 12 week chick and a picayune 2 week chick? I hope the big 1 doesn't choice on the little i!
Crazy!
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She lived in a domestic dog pen within the big henhouse with her three babies.
At three and one half weeks old, she clamored to exit of that pen one day.
And then I let her out, and she immediately RAN to the nesting expanse and climbed into one of the nests. About forty minutes later she got off that nest, leaving a overnice, warm egg behind.
And that was it for her.
She figured she had done her job. She had taught them to eat, drink, scratch, forage and socialize. And they knew those things by iii and a one-half weeks, so she figured her fourth dimension every bit a teacher was upwards.
I put her back in the domestic dog pen that night, just the adjacent 24-hour interval she clamored to get dorsum out with the big chickens, and wouldn't even go back in again.
The babies did fine with only 3 and a half weeks of mothering.
Well, for that affair, we get chick babies from the feed shop who have no mother at all, and they do pretty well with only a estrus lamp, feed, water and a safe environs to live in.
I'm sure your 12 calendar week old will be just fine, now that Momma has gone back to the developed flock.
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I really think that she thought her babe was dead and after seeing him this morning in the hen house with her, she took him dorsum!
Crazy. She must accept figured her days as a female parent were over after what she thought she saw was a large domestic dog killing her chick! She must exist relieved that he survived after all! They seem back to normal today!
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If he is 12 weeks, just put him up on the roost side by side to her at dark. He'll figure information technology out.
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