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Innate behavior (novanet)
In the sentence, "The baby chicks are running around.", the plural noun is chicks.There are no proper nouns, there are no possessive nouns.Placing an apostrophe after the noun chicks does not make it a possessive noun. A possessive noun must 'posses' another word in the sentence; for example:"The baby chicks' mother is running around."A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, or thing; for example:"The baby chicks' mother Penny is running around.
Bird hatchlings are all called chicks. The chicks of domestic fowl: ducks, geese and chickens are hatched "precocious" meaning that they can walk and feed themselves immediately after. They are not likely to survive in the wild without the mother to tend to them until they are fully fledged.
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.
They need a mother until they grow feathers which might be in about a week, then you can let the mother be a normal hen again, but separate chicks from all birds
Chicks hatch and know instinctively what to eat. Brood hens do not teach or feed the chicks.
yes they do the chicks follow the mother round until they can look after themself
Chicks (as in baby chickens) will eat grain, insects, grass, anything that they see their mother pecking at.
Their mother is like their teacher, she teaches them, where to find things, how do eat or drink
Ducklings
No, mother hens do not feed their chicks. The mother hen calls her chicks and encourages them to peck food up off the ground in the same way that she does.
I have been rasing chicks for 2 years now and not once have I seen a baby chick help.But I could be wrong!