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Congrats on your hatch! Depite what others post, I think broody raised chicks are the friendliest. My broody was mean while sitting, but just the nicest mom. She taught her chicks to trust DD and I. We could pick them up so long as she could see them.
I agree. I gave my broody hen my new hatched chicks. She taught them how to get around the grown hens & how to free range, even to come running for treats. Well it looked like I had 3 roos & 1 pullet so I found someone to trade with for 2 more pullets. Her pullets had just come out of the house but about the same size as my pullet. So these new pullets haven't a clue how to free range & are afraid of anything. They don't even know how to roost which my broody had taught my pullet. So they sit in a nest box at night but my pullet roosts in the nest box above them as she wants to be close to them but also wants to roost. The new pullets barely come past the coop door while my pullet hangs with the big hens but runs back & forth to be with the new pullets. I almost miss my other chicks I gave up but if they really were roos I couldn't keep them.
Shannon