Broody's babies hatched! What do I do now?

Here they are! They are two weeks old now and everyone is doing great. They run around in the yard amongst all the other chickens and the rooster, and everyone gets along great!

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And out in the yard:

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Congratulations!
Here are Butter's chicks - they hatched out New Years Eve/Day. We ended up moving her inside the house (she was in the raised nest box outside in the unheated/uninsulated coop) on day 18. She's in a room with the door shut, window open - to maintain a more natural temperature for her (she was used to 10/30 degrees outside in VT) The room is at about 50 and she's keeping her babies nice and toasty. I plan to move her to our garage to a big tractor with a heat lamp (we've got the temp out there to average about 40) Then in a few more weeks I will remix them carefully with the other five adult hens and roo. I just cant rush since I know 20 below zero is coming in the late January and February freeze times....
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