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Can 2 hens share the one guineas pigs cage to brood?

No Cathy you can't that size cage is too small for 2 hens and their chicks

Today is the day.

So far we have 8 chicks with two more eggs chipping. I am wondering if I should not have taken a few of the eggs from her and not let her sit on so many.

Nice work!! She looks very happy with her brood. Well done and ENJOY!!

they looks so healthy




Raf

So cute Lee

How would I go trying to move 5 goose eggs from a nest to a chicken hen?

I am always amazed at the miracle of life, I am not a religious person, but I do believe in the power of nature.

Hen eventually hatched 14 chicks and abandoned the nest. When I checked the remaining eggs they were cold, three of them sounded slushy when I gave them a little shake, but the 4th egg had a living chick pipping, I pushed the egg back under mumma and hoped for the best, I thought she might continue to sit on it when she heard it pipping.

When I got home from work mumma was back on the nest with her brood around her, the little chick had been pushed onto the ground it was half out of the egg, cold,exhausted, covered in ants and dead, so I thought. I picked the poor bedraggled little thing up with the intent of disposing of it, and it moved, it gave a very weak chirp, so I brushed off the ants, put in back in the nest deep under mumma with all it's siblings around it and in the morning, I had 15 chicks.

I am keeping this little one, and I am calling it Qiji which means miracle in Chinese.

A-MAZ-ING ! ! ! !

I think 5 is too many try 3 and it should be ok