Abandoned nestling?

Crystal · Post by **Crystal** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:04 pm

All 6 are great, though the 'runt' still isn't flying yet. He hops and can jump pretty high, perches pretty well, but hasn't quite figured out flying. Almost all of his feathers are all the way in, just a few on his head and chest are lagging behind.

There were a few days where the siblings weren't keeping him fed quite enough so I hand fed him a little here and there.

I recently placed the father/cock back in the cage since I noticed 3 of the fledgelings trying to sing and figured they might benefit from his influence. At first he treated them like little aliens and had no idea what they were asking from him when they begged for food, but the neat thing is that after just 2 days of observing the momma hen feeding the 5 siblings, he took over feedings for the runt. So now the runt is being fed by dad and the mom seems to be taking care of the other 5.

:)