Thanks, Laura. I will keep him separate from the babies, at least at
first.
Your Lilly sounds so sweet, how sad about her guinea baby. :-(
--Maureen
In a message dated 10/31/2011 1:00:08 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
laura0554@hughes.net writes:
The only experience I have with a hen hatching eggs and other chickens
being around was not good. The others killed the new hatchlings. Whether it
was another hen or the rooster who committed carnage, I am not sure. If
she were mine, I would remove him from the pen and leave her to hatch the
eggs. After they are hatched and doing well, you can test him while watching.
I have heard Silkie roos are gentle and nurturing but I have no proof at
that on our farm.
Chickens are mean and kill babies. I found baby chicks maimed in our
barnyard. I have told this story before , but in case you didn't hear it……
.our now deceased turkey hen, Lilly, want to hatch eggs so badly, but we had
no tom turkey. One of the guineas laid an egg in her house and Lilly sat on
this egg for FOUR weeks. ( One o eggs take 28 days vs chicken eggs at 21)
She hatched a beautiful snow white She h, but she didn't know the
difference. She was white. Baby was white and she was happy happy happy. Then
the chickens got ahold of it and tossed it amongst themselves and killed it.
I felt so bad for her –and yes, I cried over that little imp. So, I
found a guy selling turkey poults and I bought her two and brought them home
and she was their mother until a fox got one of them while it was sitting on
a nest of eggs that I didn't know about.
Lilly became crippled and we never knew how old she really was because we
bought her as an adult……..I had her humanely euthanized by our vet. I
couldn't treat her like barnyard fowl……..she was a pet and we loved her.
Laura Roberts
CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
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