If you leave the chicks the with hen she will teach them everything they need to know. She will tend their needs and knows when to call them in and let them go out. They will be incorporated into flock with very little fuss.
If you take the chicks YOU beome the mother hen. You have to teach them what they need to know. You will have to continue to do so and provide for them until they are nearly 16 weeks old and big enough to defend themselves against the attacks that will come when incorporated into the flock. They will have to find their place int he pecking order. Some times it is a day or two of fuss and other times it is pretty messy.
I always feel it is best to leave chicks with the hen. It is less work all the ay around for everyone involved.
If you take the chicks YOU beome the mother hen. You have to teach them what they need to know. You will have to continue to do so and provide for them until they are nearly 16 weeks old and big enough to defend themselves against the attacks that will come when incorporated into the flock. They will have to find their place int he pecking order. Some times it is a day or two of fuss and other times it is pretty messy.
I always feel it is best to leave chicks with the hen. It is less work all the ay around for everyone involved.
