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of course she is going to feed them off the ground, thats where they will be getting most of their food once outside, but she will teach them to eat out of the feeder too. you might put a pie pan under your feeder that way they are learning to eat from something, and helps keep the feed cleaner That doesn't sound good about the confrontation but good of you not to intervene, keep an eye on this because if Mona can't defend her chicks one could get hurt, most of the time it's just a peck if they get to close to another hen, but you need to be ready unless a hen gets to mean, and they can be. All an all everything should work itself out. I have noticed with my flock though that our youngest chick from this years hatch is problby 3 months old and she gets picked on the worst of all, sometimes I feel like going in the coop and spanking them girls, I have gone in and sprayed them with oxine, which I spray them with anyway, but enough is enough, she doesn't show any signs of wounds but I hate to hear her screaming because they won't let her on the roost when we have 3 roosts and none are full of birds. It's hard for me to hear it. everytime she tries to get up on a roost one of the adults will peck her till she has to get down. poor baby. I'd find her a new home but then they'd just start on another.
