Questions about putting chicks with hen

[JLS77]

I had a broody hen. She only hatched one chick. Can you take other chicks and put with her and her take care of them?

 

[Gallinarium]

Yes, if the other chicks are only a couple days old, tops, including the first chick. Put all the little peepies under her at night. By the next day, she should have accepted them. This is what I did with fifteen hatchery chicks.

 

[Ruthster55]

Do it at night and slide them under her back side rather than her beak side.

Just did this last night with a little yellow staggered-hatch chick that looks like nothing like the hen’s numerous other black and gray chicks. The hen has grudgingly accepted the yellow day-old and is not beaking it.

 

[aart]

I had a broody hen. She only hatched one chick. Can you take other chicks and put with her and her take care of them?

Maybe.
Best done right at hatch time, and with chicks that are as young as possible.
Some broodies will take older chicks, others will kill them