Do mama chickens spit worms into baby chickens' mouths?

[chickenlady81]

chickensducks&agoose :

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Really? I was totally confused!

 

[cabincrazyone]

 

[BooBear]

 

[cboois94]

No Hens do not do that. THey teach the chicks where to eat and how to scratch in the dirt and grass to find their own food.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

Oh man, I thought my hens were refusing food to their chicks by not doing that, so I've been chewing them up for the babies!

 

[cabincrazyone]

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I know that a lot of folks think that if they have feathers and lays eggs, they're all the same. But as you say, precocial birds are born fuzzy and alert ... and able to feed themselves almost right away. They're far more developed than altricial birds which come out of the egg naked (as a jay bird) and able to do only one thing ... hold their mouths open.