I'd rather just buy some chicks and put them under her.
These last are said to be broken by the old birds to serve as nourishment for the newly-hatched chicks, whose stomachs cannot bear the hard food on which their parents thrive.
There is a big demand for day-old chicks during April.
She helped Betsy in the kitchen and hovered around Bumpus like a hen with chicks.
You could make make your own cards in the shape of Easter eggs or fluffy yellow chicks.