Chicken likes to kill?

[padavali]

I wonder if, like some animals after the taste of blood, do chickens remember and want/crave it?

We have one survivor chick, after one hen killed the other 4 on night 5 of everybody together. There was nothing left other than feathers. We have had the chick separate from the 3 hens, in a urban coop/run for 1.5 weeks. today we decided to try to let her be out in the yard, hoping that the chickens had gotten used to her through the fencing. The one killer hen attacked the chick again, I had to work fast to get the chick away (3.5 months old) and back into her coop.

What are my options here? is there a chance that Coo will always go after the chick? Or should I plan on keeping the chick separate till she is full grown? I really want to have them all together and I feel bad for the chick all alone. Getting more chicks is not an option, I like a small flock...

 

[munoz lucia]

Help my baby chico cantón churp nd is not been able o eat wat can i do

 

[aart]

You might try to take the killer chicken and put her in the other coop and see if the other 2 hens will accept the chick.
14 weeks is pretty little tho, you might have to wait until she is bigger.

Are the two coop/runs nest to each other so they can see each other?

Small flocks with small spaces are the most difficult to do integrations with.


Here's some notes I've taken on integration that I found to be very helpful.......
......take what applies or might help and ignore the rest.
See if any of them, or the links provided at the bottom, might offer some tips that will assist you in your situation:

Integration of new chickens into flock.

Consider medical quarantine:
BYC Medical Quarantine Article
Poultry Biosecurity
BYC 'medical quarantine' search

Confine new birds within sight but physically segregated from older/existing birds for several weeks, so they can see and get used to each other but not physically interact. Integrating new birds of equal size works best.

For smaller chicks I used a large wire dog crate right in the coop for the smallers. I removed the crate door and put up a piece of wire fencing over the opening and bent up one corner just enough for the smallers to fit thru but the biggers could not. Feed and water inside the crate for the smallers. Make sure the smallers know how to get in and out of the crate opening before exposing them to the olders. this worked out great for me, by the time the crate was too small for the them to roost in there(about 3 weeks), they had pretty much integrated themselves to the olders.

If you have too many smallers to fit in a crate you can partition off part of the coop with a wire wall and make the same openings for smallers escape.


The more space, the better. Birds will peck to establish dominance, the pecked bird needs space to get away. As long as there's no blood drawn and/or new bird is not trapped/pinned down, let them work it out. Every time you interfere or remove new birds, they'll have to start the pecking order thing all over again.

Multiple feed/water stations. Dominance issues are most often carried out over sustenance, more stations lessens the frequency of that issue.

Places for the new birds to hide out of line of sight and/or up and away from any bully birds.

Read up on integration..... BYC advanced search>titles only>integration
This is good place to start reading:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/adding-to-your-flock

 

[Sutremaine]

Maybe your killer chicken is lacking something in her diet. Get a hold of her and check all her skin.

Are you sure it's just that one hen?