Broody hen chicks VS incubator chicks

[Yiannisk]

I have 9 chicks hatched from a broody hen and 20 from my incubator i noticed that the chicks from the hen are more (clever) capable and trained to survived than the chicks from the incubator
what is your experience ?? am i right or it is my imagination ?

 

[FireTigeris]

Since incubation have they had the same experiences?

She does teach ...

is that 9 of 9 or 9 of 20? That is did all of the hen's chicks survive?

If not maybe the dumb ones died...

 

[Life is Good!]

Instinct plays a large part of survival, but there are 'tricks' that a chicken can teach her chicks. Like where to scratch - not just to scratch. And the day that one of my brooded chicks discovered a BUG when he was scratching around - why, you'd have thought he discovered gold with all the clucking he made!!! Funny stuff! Unfortunately, the bug got keep-away swiped by a sibling, so he had to go find himself another....

Our incubated, brooded by me chicks were TERRIFIED of grass the first day they went outside at 2wks old. But after watching 'the big girls' for about 10sec., they figured it out....! (The chicks were inside a fenced run....the girls were on the other side of the fence free ranging).

Chickens learn quickly though, now, it's hard to tell the two groups apart!

 

[Yiannisk]

the ones with the broody hen were free with the flock (two other hens and a rooster)
the incubated were in a separate coop with own run inside the big run of the others they had visual contact
Now they share the same run with no problems but my impression is that the broody hen chicks catch up things faster than the others
are more active and more daring as to say
So as you said mother hen taught them things !!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Yes, the mother hen taught them things. They can survive and actually do quite well on instinct alone, but broody raised chciks usually do better.