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For some reason my search skills are failing me! I have some day-old chicks coming to be put under a hen that's been broody for three weeks.
She's set up just inside the door of the shed, which she accesses through a hole for the farm cat. We figure we should be able to slip the chicks under her late at night.
I'm figuring that just putting them in the shed on the floor in her nest is probably a really bad idea, since there are lots of shed things in the shed.. including a few chemicals. I do have a rabbit hutch, and some cages, and at least one other difficult option.
My husband and I were hard hit by covid in 2021, and my husband is disabled as a result. But we still raise chickens for eggs.
Should we set her up in the hutch? Will she abandon the nest?
She's set up just inside the door of the shed, which she accesses through a hole for the farm cat. We figure we should be able to slip the chicks under her late at night.
I'm figuring that just putting them in the shed on the floor in her nest is probably a really bad idea, since there are lots of shed things in the shed.. including a few chemicals. I do have a rabbit hutch, and some cages, and at least one other difficult option.
My husband and I were hard hit by covid in 2021, and my husband is disabled as a result. But we still raise chickens for eggs.
Should we set her up in the hutch? Will she abandon the nest?