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You can, but there's a great likelihood that baby will be lonely after the broody finishes raising it. I had a boy who was the only survivor of his clutch. And once the broody hen finished raising him and went back to the flock, he was never able to blend in with the other generations. He was always lonely.
I do think that if your lonely chick is a girl, it will be better for her. Girls tend to have an easier time getting into the flock, but not until they're quite a bit older. If you don't have any generations that are close to the age of your lonely chick, i would definitely recommend getting some chicks that are the same (or very close) age.
But two of them were not fertilized when I checked them at 4 days. If the egg hatches
