Hello! I have been on this page for years but never posted. We have 2 hens left from our original flock and they are 2 years old. (A buff and Orpington). We are wanting to add a few more hens cause these don’t lay very often, maybe an egg every two days or so.
My question is, can we buy some chicks and place them under a hen at night in a nest box even though they aren’t broody? Or will they perish. We really don’t have time to tend them in a heat lamp situation. Oh and we have a resident Cooper’s hawk in a tree by our pond.![See-no-evil monkey :see_no_evil: 🙈](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f648.png)
My question is, can we buy some chicks and place them under a hen at night in a nest box even though they aren’t broody? Or will they perish. We really don’t have time to tend them in a heat lamp situation. Oh and we have a resident Cooper’s hawk in a tree by our pond.
![See-no-evil monkey :see_no_evil: 🙈](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f648.png)