@alchemistfarm · Alchemist Farm & Franchesca Duval Humane Chicken Hatchery🌿🐣🌿
Saved 2026-05-15 · Posted 2025-02-07 · Status: New
✨This is Pure Sweetnees✨
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Do you have a broody who wants to become a mama? This is our method for how we teach introduce chicks to a broody mama for her to raise.
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You can give chicks to a broody as early as five days into her broody cycle, this helps the hens health. Giving chicks so early in the broody cycle allows her to not stay on the nest as long. Some hens will sit for months without nourishment in hope that chicks will hatch!
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It takes 21 days for fertile hatching eggs to hatch under a broody hen. Eggs can also be given but we prefer chicks because the hen still gets to fulfill her sense of wanting to become a mother and she begins to eat/drink sooner. No need to wait 21 days to give baby chicks ❤️
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Have you ever seen a mama hen with chicks? 🥰
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Comments (15)
Our best broody hen story was when the hen took over a litter of kittens...cutest thing ever🤍
@roxytruesteve
It worked for us!!! But put two chicks under her
So sweet! Best mamas!!
This is magical. I just love chickens ❤️ I can’t wait to have some one day!
Worked for us. So magical to watch it all happen
Moss
I did this when we incubated 8 and let her hatch four. They all hatched around the same time and i took the 8 babies to join the other four and the momma. I was pretty scared that something was going to go wrong but it ALL worked out great and she was an awesome momma to those 12 babies. It was entertaining watching her sit on them at night!
Yes! I almost cried at how happy mama was. One of my favorite chicken memories. She was the best mama ❤️
My sister did this with her chickens. I think it’s so funny that this works lol.
I’m brand new to the IDEA of chickens (but I ordered some from you arriving in may!). So please forgive my question but was does a broody hen mean?
We’ve done this with our silkie the past two years and she’s loved the babies and raised them so well!!
😍How many chicks can I give to one hen?
Yes! We’ve done this several times and it’s truly one of the most beautiful things to witness.
Do you usually do just one chick?