[French Chick]

Hi there when I realised my chick had hatched I seperated the hen with the chick to another coop, which is a two story rabbit both are fine. I don't know what else could have happened to yours, sorry, hope you sort out soon

[Sassy]

Were all the broodies together in the same coop? If so might this be why there is a problem? Good luck raising the chicks.

[themagicaltoad1]

They were all in separate broody hutches which they had been in from day one of sitting on the eggs. Within a couple of days of the hatchings the hens all seem to have forgotten they were ever broody, so I can only think they were beginning to come out of their broodiness already by the time the eggs hatched and that's why they attacked the chicks, other than that I'm baffled. The chicks are all doing fine, eating and drinking well although they do seem to have bad diarrhoea. I've only given them chick crumbs, is the diarrhoea normal for chicks?

[joyfull]

mine haven't got diarrhoea, what colour is it?

I wouldn't use these hens again as broodies 

[themagicaltoad1]

Since I posted about the diarrhoea I moved them from a box where they were on cloth to a base of wood shavings. They had a lot of fun in the shavings and were eating bits of it. The diarrhoea now seems to have stopped. I won't be repeating this experiment, so won't be using those broody's again.

[lisa80]

chicks poo can be a bit runny sometimes and very smelly i find that after a week i have to put them on a thin layer of shavings because they  stand in their poo and it dries on their feet and can be very hard work cleaning them up :)we have been very lucky with the 2 cuckoo marans we had go broody ,a few hiccups but overall they did a fab job :Dwe do have one girls that just likes playing at it  ::)she will sit and sit ,then get off after a couple of weeks :(she did hatch some chicks last year but turned on 2 and nearly killed them