A wider view of the straw-filled brooder, with all the tiny babies under a heat lamp, and the 3 week old, partially feathered, much larger chicks looking slightly offended over on the other side of the pen. There is also a feeder and waterer.

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   Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Aug-2026 03:50:12 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

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   9 chicks! Looks like a few more eggs may still hatch.

   At first I put them in with the bigger, 3 week old chicks. But it looked like there was going to be some bullying.

   So the bigger chicks have now moved in with the mama hen and her babies. Very chill mama, and we watched carefully for a while. She definitely knows they are not her chicks, and doesn't want them closer to her, but the space they are in is large and it doesn't look like she's going to be mean to them.