so I was closing the coop door and I found this poor fella tonight.
1 of our hens hatched her just 3 weeks ago. I’ll be very surprised but I hope she makes it through tonight.
I can’t decide if maybe a rat has pecked her today or the cockerel or another hen has seeisouly been pecking at her.
so myself and my wife purchased 4 hens and 1 cockerel (All bluebells ) 2 hens were 16 weeks as was the cockerel and 2 hens were 8 weeks. The cockerel done his business with a hen, we had 3 eggs and 24 days later 1 hatched. All done by the hen alone. Today we found the baby chick with a nasty...