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A hen will likely not adopt chicks unless she has chicks of the same age already. Hens will protect her nest from even the smallest chicks introduced so it is not a good idea to try to force a hen to "mother" newly hatched chicks. Keep the young chicks in the brooder box until they are older and can defend themselves. It is not the rooster they need to worry about, he will ignore them, the most damage will come from older hens establishing the pecking order of the flock.
Chicks and mother can be introduced back into the flock by about 2 to 3 months. There will still be some squabbling, but the chicks are old enough and fast enough to escape the worst of the punishment. Momma hen will help them. There is not much worry from the rooster.
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Why do chicks peep?
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How do day old domestic chicks behave?
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How old does a baby chicken need to be to leave its mum?
Many chicks never know their mother. Most chicks are artificially incubated and are raised in a brooder with other chicks their own age. Chicks hatched by a broody hen in the chicken coop often stay with "mom" until they are full grown at the age of 6 to 8 months old and will often stay with "mom" all their lives. This is basically just for companionship as the mother hen does not feed her chicks, they are born knowing how and what to eat.
Is it a learned or an instinctive behavior that enables a bird to build its own nest?
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Do you know about about animals?
if you need to know something about animals go to google and type in: animal info and stuff like that!
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i know that you can adopt, i just do not know how to.
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Chicks hatch and know instinctively what to eat. Brood hens do not teach or feed the chicks.
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they do this because ,if they are lost ,the hen will know where they are.
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because of the yellow eyes
Where is Sophie on brit chicks?
don't know its to hard
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you can by getting them annoyed.examples: you can say stuff you know whoever you trying to get emotional,you could do stuff whoever your trying to get emotional they don't like
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ok i know this doesnt sound like getting stuff but it actually works.first find prettycutey,then buy alot of stuff for wooz,i can lower it.after you buy stuff i will tell you how to really simple stuff
How does a peanut dance?
you know white chicks doin wudeva
Do girls get industrial piercings?
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don't know they adopt by jumping up and down
