Robotic mother hen?
The first round of chicks
have out grown their blue Rubbermaid tub and graduated to the
new mini
coop.
Sometimes I wonder if a fake
mother hen would make new born chicks feel more secure in the first few
weeks when life is so dangerous and big.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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I know that they used sock puppet mothers to raise California Condor chicks- that way they would know what to do when they were set free and raised clutches of their own.
Ah, I do love a good puppet show....