Giving new chicks to momma

[Still Amateur]

We had a broody just hatch 5 chicks Thursday/Friday. I want more than the 5 so I’ll be getting feed store chicks as soon as they’re available this week. Petunia is a good momma - will she accept the new chicks that are roughly a week younger than the 5 she hatched? I want more chicks but I want the momma to handle it all instead of brooder raising them and having to introduce them to the flock after being fully feathered.

 

[NanaK]

I think it she will be unlikely to accept more chicks since she has already bonded with the ones she hatched. She may look at any new chicks as intruders.

 

[Still Amateur]

Hmmm. Not what I wanted to hear but understandable.

 

[Mvan42]

You can try putting the new chicks under her at night. Watch closely the next morning to see if she has accepted them or not. It just depends on her. I had a broody hen accept chicks weeks after she has hatched.
So possible but possibly not possible. All you can do it try. You said she is a good mama so I would try.