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Why do chicks follow their mother?
Chicks follow their mother for protection, warmth, and guidance. The mother provides food, teaches them survival skills, and keeps them safe from predators. This behavior helps the chicks learn to navigate their environment and ensure their survival.
What is a little chicks noise called?
A baby chick's noise is called "peeping" or "cheeping." It is a high-pitched sound they make to communicate with their mother and other chicks.
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.
Can you leave the rooster in the pen with mother and babies?
Usually the rooster will ignore the chicks unless he is a particularly aggressive male. The mother hen will guard the chicks but cannot keep them safe all the time. If you have space to separate them do so. If the birds are free range then you will have more problems from aggressive hens than from the rooster.
Will a mother pigeon return to her nest after she has been scared away?
It depends. She probably will if she has left eggs or chicks there.
What is the proper plural possessive noun in the sentence the baby chicks' are running around?
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.
How can a mother chicken tell which chicks are her's when on a farm with other hen's chicks?
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.
How old do chicks have to be to take them from their mother?
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
What do mother chickens feed their baby chicks for breakfast?
Chicks hatch and know instinctively what to eat. Brood hens do not teach or feed the chicks.
Why do chicks follow their mother?
Chicks follow their mother for protection, warmth, and guidance. The mother provides food, teaches them survival skills, and keeps them safe from predators. This behavior helps the chicks learn to navigate their environment and ensure their survival.
Do hens care for the chicks after they are hatched?
yes they do the chicks follow the mother round until they can look after themself
What do chicks eat and what do they like?
Chicks (as in baby chickens) will eat grain, insects, grass, anything that they see their mother pecking at.
What does one call the group of little chicks following their mother?
Ducklings
Do baby chicks help there mother?
I have been rasing chicks for 2 years now and not once have I seen a baby chick help.But I could be wrong!
How do you use brood of chicks in a sentence?
A brood is a group of animals hatched from one set of eggs. The brood of chicks followed their mother around the farmyard.
What are Chicks with the same mother called?
siblings yaknow like your sister or your brother?
Can chicks be removed from the mother hen after hatching?
yes it can if your are wearing the right protection
