[CHICKENS-101] Re: Can you put "old" chicks under a broody hen?

 

It did not work for me :( The hen tried to kill it. Had to keep mine penned up next to the big girls till they were 4 months.

Renee

--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "sabates@..." <adinasenft@...> wrote:
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> I got two chicks from the feed store and one has turned out to be a rooster, so he'll be re-homed (zoning restrictions where I live). The other is now 5 weeks old. Is she too old to put under a broody hen so that the older bird will adopt her? I don't want to put the little baby out in the pen with all the adult birds without some kind of protector or companion. She'll have a nervous breakdown.
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> Thanks!
> Adina
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