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The day started out so exciting. The baby robin the kids found this morning ended up coming in the house to be cared for(I think it had some internal injuries from falling out of its nest) and new chicks that hatched this morning. 4 hatched and so far the other 7 are still not hatched. We went to the store, came back and the mother hen wasn't on her nest.
We didn't know what to do. We didn't know if she knew what she was doing. Why did she leave the nest when the eggs weren't done? Why wasn't she keeping her chicks warmed?
So, since we couldn't catch her, we carried her nest of eggs and the chicks to the other hen house since we knew they needed to be away from the other chickens anyway.
Somehow, Susanna ended up sitting on a chick and it got squished. It peeped very loudly and then the insides came out the behind and it fell over. Hannah & Jonah both saw this and became hysterical. Jonah ran into the woods crying. Hannah went into the house crying. She then came back out with the baby robin-it had died while we were gone. I told them it probably would die, but on top of the chick dying-it was just worse.
So, we put everybody back where they were, got the mother hen back in her nest and shut the hen house door. She's sitting on her other eggs & the 3 chicks, but I don't know if they will finish hatching now.
I also don't know if these chicks will be ok waiting for food while she sits in the nest trying to hatch the eggs.
I'm pretty upset, too. It is all from being ignorant-I don't know what I'm doing and it's my fault. I know I'm learning as I go, but when it costs a life, it just really stinks.
So, that is what happened here today. Here are picks of the baby robin alive:
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