Youngest a hen can raise chicks

[coledabomb]

Check the pullet out in the front of your picture.
Her rump is fairly pink and she has feather loss. Check her for mites, worms or perhaps she's molting or being pecked at pretty badly because she's low on the pecking order or perhaps Mr. Rooster is treating her poorly and needs to be removed.
Does she have any other feather loss areas? Check her neck and sides. Treat her per the condition.
When feathers are missing, you need to find out the reason because it's very stressful for the chicken whatever the cause is.
How many females do you have per your one male?
How old are your females?
How old is your male?
How long has she been missing her tail/rump feathers?
Need a better picture of her missing feather areas please.

It’s ok I just got her drop some people and they were from over mating but our roosters here are separate till they grow back

 

[yakitori]

This may be obvious, but I’ll mention it just in case. Whether it’s pullets or hens, they will need to be broody in order to raise chicks. Not all chickens will go broody, and those that do, will do so randomly...

 

[PoultryCQ]

This may be obvious, but I’ll mention it just in case. Whether it’s pullets or hens, they will need to be broody in order to raise chicks. Not all chickens will go broody, and those that do, will do so randomly...

I agree, you best bet for them to go broody is to leave out a few eggs. I dont start incubating pullet eggs until they have been laying for a solid month and a half (nearly daily). Usually, pullets dont start laying daily or close to daily for a while. I also like to incubate once the eggs are nice and large.

 

[coledabomb]

This may be obvious, but I’ll mention it just in case. Whether it’s pullets or hens, they will need to be broody in order to raise chicks. Not all chickens will go broody, and those that do, will do so randomly...

I thought you could make almost all go broody by leaving there eggs in there?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I thought you could make almost all go broody by leaving there eggs in there?

No.

Sometimes a pile of eggs clicks something, but almost always you'll just end up with a pile of old eggs

 

[coledabomb]

No.

Sometimes a pile of eggs clicks something, but almost always you'll just end up with a pile of old eggs

Oh thank you so much I never knew that

 

[Maiahr]

No.

Sometimes a pile of eggs clicks something, but almost always you'll just end up with a pile of old eggs

X2

 

[BigBlueHen53]

If a hen decides to go broody, she will insist on setting on a nest even if there are no eggs in the nest, or even if there are only a couple of golf balls. Gather your eggs daily, no matter what. Then if a hen goes broody, after she's been solidly parked on the nest DAY AND NIGHT for at least 3 days, you can give her some eggs, but mark them so you know they are hers. Continue to remove any fresh eggs daily, or better yet, separate her so nobody else can lay eggs in her nest. That way nobody will stomp on the started eggs and break them. If/when you get this far along, let us know and experienced hatchers will continue to advise you. Good luck!

 

[coledabomb]

If a hen decides to go broody, she will insist on setting on a nest even if there are no eggs in the nest, or even if there are only a couple of golf balls. Gather your eggs daily, no matter what. Then if a hen goes broody, after she's been solidly parked on the nest DAY AND NIGHT for at least 3 days, you can give her some eggs, but mark them so you know they are hers. Continue to remove any fresh eggs daily, or better yet, separate her so nobody else can lay eggs in her nest. That way nobody will stomp on the started eggs and break them. If/when you get this far along, let us know and experienced hatchers will continue to advise you. Good luck!

Thank you so much this gave me a lot of information that I didn’t know and I will let you know when I’m there

 

[StepfordCuckoos]

We had two 1.5 month old silkie chicks raise two black sex link chicks. We were in a bit of a bind so we had to put two chicks from TSC into the brooder with two silkies. At the time we didn't know the silkies were both pullets but they were. One of our silkies is black and the other is splash. It took our splash silkie a day extra to get totally used to the chicks but our black silkie IMMEDIATELY took to them. They would crawl under her (and after one day our splash silkie would let them crawl under her too) and she would keep them there all night. This continued until they were transitioned to the big coop- and continued further even after being in that coop. The black sex links would crawl under our silkies at night even though at this point they were much bigger than them. It was really cute. They definitely thought they were their mamas.

They're all over a year old now and are still close. Both silkies have gone broody and hatched eggs. Our black silkie is an amaaaaazing mama. She's adopted a number of chicks hatched by our other hens.