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By verbal communication, and even by sight. To a human all chicks peep the same, but to a mother hen, she can tell which chicks are hers and which are not.
It is called to cluck.You say: The hen clucked at her chicks.
If you crossed a black hen/roo with a white hen/roo, the offspring would NOT be blue. If he was recessive white, the chicks would be black. If he was dominant white, the chicks would be white with some black "smudges" or "spots". The only way to produce 100% blue chicks is to cross a black roo over splash hens or a splash rooster over black hens.
Yes.
Le coq sportif has a roster or hen on their logo. Its a sportswear company
A French Hen is a bird because their baby's are chicks, and chicks are birds. Their technically birds because birds are the only animal with feathers.
No. A broody hen will hatch a brood of chicks the way nature intended. Incubators or a brood hen are the only two ways to get chicks, egg won't hatch into chicks without the proper conditions of heat and humidity for 21 days.
Yes, the hen is careful not to squash the chicks. Hens sit on the clutch of eggs for three weeks without crushing them. Once the chicks start to hatch the hen is extra careful and often gets adjusts her position. The hatching chicks will stay under the mother hen for a few days and even when they venture out, they will dive back under her for protection.
they do this because ,if they are lost ,the hen will know where they are.
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Hen is the female gender of the species. Chicken is a species Hen the female and rooster the male gender.