Скачать или смотреть Flock dynamics, accommodating the needs of babies

We had a 4 day power outage after a tornado came through, which caused a high loss of eggs that were in incubation. Just one chick hatched and it was obviously lonely. The next hatch batch went great but the lonely baby was too mean for that to work. During morning chores, I found a 6 week old pullet that wasn't having a great time in her pen, so I pulled her and placed her with the lonely one. It still wants to pick at her but is too little to do any damage. I've observed for hours now and it's a good match, as weird as it is. Usually the bigger babies can be quite harmful and blending with that large of an age gap can be detrimental. In this scenario, it's working.