Rural Gardening: Molting?, 1 by green04735

green04735 wrote:
They are so cute!They say golden comets don`t go broody very often,I was also told that the black sexlinks don`t go broody but one of mine did this summer so I got baby chicks to put under her and took out the golf balls that she was sitting on and she was a proud mama and a very good one.You really don`t need the heat lamp she will keep them warm if she is sitting a lot so they can get under her.If you can put a pen around the coop that they are in she will take them out and then inside a lot during the day so they can feed,at least thats what my silkies do.This is what I did with the black sexlink as I had no other coops to put them in.I had a large dog crate so I put that out in the big run with the big chickens and fenced it in so they others could not get at them,this worked great and when they were a bit older I took away the fence and left the crate as it had there food and water in it.Then when mom was ready she took them into the big coop one night and that was the end of the dog crate,the chicks by then were mostly on there own as mom stops taking care of them when they are about 6 to 8 weeks old.