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Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening again?

Well maybe. I've seen this hen peck at the runt into the air by its wing multiple times.

I'm sorry to hear that.I saw blood on the side of her neck.

Well. I've seen this particular hen pick on the chick a lot and the chick didnt look I'll. She would sneeze often but I think it's just the cold and she didnt get as much feathers as the others.

No because there was blood around the neck and the mother (not the killer) never hurt her as far as I've seen (which is alot)

Yes. Unfortunately I was at school so I didnt see what happened but I've seen this one hen pick on the chicks sometime but that was when we first introduced them. The hen that killed the runt was a barred rock that I think is more dominant, even more than the rooster. The other 2 chicks are...

No a different hen in the flock.

I have a pekin mother hen and 3 chicks. Two of them was male and one was female but the female was a runt and although the chicks were 6 weeks the runt looked 3 weeks old. We had the chicks living in the greenhouse for a while which is next to our coop and we introduced them to the flock but...