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joanne



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 24, 14 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I know I'm sat in the next room atm and I could probably just speak to you in person but I've used the one from solway feeders before and it was really good because you could angle it so the chicks could find their sweet spot

It was the big black metal one with adjustable legs

Mutton



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 27, 14 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We've found that we have some hens that will adopt chicks - they go broody for a couple of days, and chicks whose mother's have decided they are old enough to cope without them (aka got bored) move into the box with the warm broody and all of a sudden the broody is off the nest being followed by the chicks.

Having had that experience, we have even handed newly hatched chicks into a broody and it worked. (The one that hatched them was glued to the nest still brooding non-existent eggs and the chicks needed to be lead out to food and the mother just wasn't doing it.)

You could just try putting an amiable hen in with the chicks and see if it adopts if none are broody.

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