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That's good news....

If they aren't attacking each other, I would leave them and let them get used to each other. The most important is if the hen is still accepting them. She looks like my Australorp.

Yay!!!! What a good hen you have. What breed is she?

To me it sounds like she is trying to mother the chicks. If I could be so lucky! My broody tried to kill the baby chicks, she grabbed one by the neck and threw it. I had to raise them myself, and she still hates them. She suspects they are going to replace her and I'm tempted to do just...

If you search forum archives on introducing chicks to a broody hen, you will find lots and lots of info. The idea is that the hen will snap out of being broody when she adopts the chicks. A broody hen not sitting on fertile eggs could stay broody too long since the eggs won't ever hatch. She...

Does she actually seem to be trying to protect those chicks? I have read a lot of forums on introducing chicks to broody hens. There are all kinds of success stories as well as failures. I tried it with day old chicks and failed, but your hen may one of those who can even adopt older...