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No, the mama hen will protect the babies and run off any chicken that dares to get too close. It's kind of cool to see.

If your silkies are broody when the chicks arrive, yes, you can put them under the hen and she will accept them as her own and they will think she is her mother. However, I don't know about if she has only been broody a few days. I've had a hen accept baby chicks when she had been broody about...