A view inside a straw-filled barn stall, with a feeder and waterer on one side, with a fluffed up grey mama hen and her babies in the middle, and several scruffy, partially feathered chicks on the other side, staring at the mama hen.

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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.