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Chicken have a social group or family called a flock. Hens and chicks can be kept with the rest of the flock but it is best to wait until the chicks are about a month old if they have been separate from the flock at hatch. Chickens also have what is called the pecking order and the other adult birds in the flock will often try to bully the new chicks and end up hurting them. When they are about a month old they are fast enough to escape back to momma hen.

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