yes, the three survivors hatched first.
after those hatched, she kept incubating the rest and started to kill them as they hatched. maybe it’s because she’s young and inexperienced? 🤔
we only have 3 full grown chickens. we have 1 rooster and 2 hens, one of which is the mom. the other hen had no...
out of the 3 she has alive now, 2 are grey and one is black, the black one being about 2 days older than the first grey one, and the first grey one being a day older than the last grey one. the first one she killed was grey, and it was also scalped like the one i have now, although it was...
oh ok. it just confused me because she loves her other chicks so much and is very protective of them. I didn’t think that she would ever kill one of her babies. she’s very nurturing to the 3 she does have.
This chick was hatched this morning. I’m thinking that the mother hen attacked it. Which really confuses me, because she loves her other chicks so much
and is very protective of them. But this one appears to have been attacked. We’ve also lost 2 others but they were dead when I found them. I’m...