Can I Move 4 chicks to my silkie hen who has two of her own?

[Arica]

So last week I got some chicks a couple days later my siljiw hen went broody but when I tried to put them under her she refused them because they were all ready a week old I got her 2 day old cream legbars and she is doing okay my question is scince she has exepted these can I slowly add the other ones?

 

[sourland]

You can try, but I doubt if she will accept them - she has already bonded with the legbar chicks and may want to 'protect' them from the older chicks.

 

[Abronsyth]

Well, it actually worked with our mallard hens, but I'd have to say ducks have a very different view on raising babies than our hens! When my austro/RIR mix had chicks she protected them from other chicks that were close to the same age...

 

[Arica]

Note cream legbar chicks are around as big as my other chicks ( the other ones are quiet small) just to clarify