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No, your original post asked if you should keep her..... You asked that if you nursed her back to health, shouldn't she 'belong' to you. The question of whether your flock would accept her is entirely secondary to 'should you keep her, knowing who she probably belongs to'. And, you stated that they 'probably wouldn't know she was gone', as though that made stealing morally okay. What is best for her is also secondary to 'this is someone's legal property'. Even if they do not take care of their chickens in exactly the same way that you care for your chickens. Stealing is stealing, whether you pick her up under your arm and walk away from the owners property with her, or are an accessory after the fact...Even concealing the fact that you have her at your house, under the guise of 'doctoring' her is wrong.
It is the owners right to put her down if they choose.
And lest someone accuse me of being 'excited', no, I am not 'excited' over this. I was just raised to know right from wrong, and, my opinion was asked, on a public forum...