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I thought that might have happened. A week old is probably too old. Some hens will adopt practically any chick even if they are older. Many won't. The chicks also need to imprint on the hen, that's easier to do in the first few days. I think those chicks were too old, you need to raise them...

"Brand new chicks" probably means less than three days old. That's how I do it and it almost always works. One time the hen rejected them. She did not hurt them, she just ignored them. The other time the hen accepted the red chicks and rejected the black ones. When you deal with living...