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If the chicks are eating anything other than chick starter, do they have access to baby chick grit? They need this for digestion. It's the only thing I can think of to suggest that might help.

Yeah, I wasn't very clear. Thanks for calling me out! 😉

Sorry, I meant only that they do not "see color" in the way that humans do, as in: Waitaminnit! That baby's white! I'm a Black Australorp, something is very wrong here! Sorry kid, go find your own mama!" 🤣 Yes of course they actually do see color in the world around them as people quickly...

Not at all. Chickens is chickens. Unlike humans, they don't see color, and neither hen knows what egg/ chick came out of whose egg. A chicken will even sit on and hatch a duck egg and vice versa, or partridge, quail or any other bird egg you care to mention. No worries! ETA: To clarify: I did...

Congratulations, how exciting! Yeah, she'll figure most of it out herself. And hens do eat when they're broody, you just may not notice it. Typically they get off the nest about once a day to eat, drink, dustbathe and release a big ol' stinky poop, then go back to set some more. If they didn't...