Do chickens feed thier young?

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No chicks start pecking up bits of food withing a couple of hours of hatching.

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No they just lay them!

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No I don't think so. The chicks initially feed on the egg from which they hatched and then they forage .There is special chick feed the farmer or owner can give them also make sure water is available.

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no

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At the end of the incubation period, which is an average of 21 days, the eggs (if fertilized) will hatch, and the broody hen will take care of her young. Since individual eggs do not all hatch at exactly the same time (the chicken can only lay one egg approximately every 25 hours), the hen will usually stay on the nest for about two days after the first egg hatches. During this time, the newly-hatched chicks live off the egg yolk they absorb just before hatching. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chicken...

Did you know that chicks and chickens do not have teeth. They use their gizzard to make their food smaller. This organ, located just before their stomach grinds the food into smaller pieces for them. But they need small rocks called grit to help them do this. A chick doesn't need grit till they are about 7 days old. Then it is sprinkled on their food daily.
http://www.mwt.net/~hobbyfarm/chicken.ht...

so I guess they don't

hope this helps

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No but the hen helps her chicks in finding food they could nibble/peck

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Have you never tried Chicken Milk ?

Milking a chicken is difficult as the teats are very small. So, in villages in Indonesia this task is carried out by the children.
However, the practice is not widespread due to the fact that it takes approximately 8 hours of milking 200 chickens to get one pint of chicken milk.
When you compare this to the productivity of a cow you can see why most civilisations have switched to cow or goat milk.

There are unsubstantiated claims that chicken milk has medicinal properties and can lower blood pressure. Also, in some parts of the world Cockerel milk is used as a male aphrodisiac.

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yes when they are born they are bald and helpless just
like any other young bird

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Chicks are born fluffy and active, they can walk within an hour or two of hatching. The mother hen 'chuckles' to the chicks and leads them around, and they copy her pecking at bits on the ground. The more exciting the food the more fuss the mother makes so the chicks learn whats good to eat.
But if they don't have a mother hen around they can survive (like in a commercial hatchery) because they will peck at anything that stands out from the background, its instinctive behaviour. All thats in the pen is bowls of food, water and the floor so they have no trouble figuring out whats edible, there not much else to peck at!

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No chickens do not feed their young. The chick are imprinted to the first thing they see (usually the hen) and follow her around from then on. When they see her scratch on the ground and peck at something, they will instinctively learn to peck at it too. So through copying, they learn to eat.

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Not directly.From the time they hatch a baby chicken is self sufficient it can walk within hours of hatching.It instinctively pecks at the ground.When raised by the mother the hen will scratch at the ground then call the chicks over so they can eat much of what she scratched up.She does not feed them by any beak to beak means as many other birds do.

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nope..once they are born, they eat on their own...the mom takes care of them but doesnt feed them..

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Not actively.

The chicks follow their mother and copy her.So she goes to eat,they follow and eat what she does.

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Any chicken found neglecting their children should be reported.