Here is one of my 2 month old chicks playing momma to her second set of babies. She has a strong mothering instinct. I think she's a keeper for baby raising. In the pic she was calling the chicks to her so she could sit on them. They had just came out of the bator and where still wet and the brooder hadn't warmed up yet. So I put little momma in to do her thing. Once it warmed up I put her back with her other 7 babies. The dark baby is a glue split to lav and the light one is a splash. There is another splash but it didn't go to her but to the heat lamp instead.
This is her first brood. You can see she still has pin feathers on her neck and head.