From: Jill (news_at_NOSPAMkintaline.co.uk)
Date: 04/14/07

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0tterbot wrote:

> Young chicks are taught to roost by their
>> mothers as soon as they are big enough to do so.
>
> they came from a poultry farm - it's not clear to me if the babies
> are kept with mothers or all brought up artificially.

Probably without Mum
But that makes no difference.
Chicks naturally start to roost on their own at a couple of weeks - without 
Mum at all

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