Ants attacking hatching chick (help)

[summerb123]

I let my broody hatch some eggs and early today I saw the first one pipped earlier everything was going well until I came out a few hour later and ants were attacking it and and was pushed out of the nest... Others are due to hatch soon and do NOT need that to be a problem!

What should I do to prevent another ant attack? I really need some advice...

(BTW the chick is showing signs of life... I really don't know what to do
The chick has not absorbed all the yolk and I put it under a heat lamp but she most likely is not going to make it...)

 

[Kiki]

I'm not sure this is the best idea or even a good one but can you move the broody and the eggs/chick to a safer ant free place?

 

[sylviethecochin]

I've had great success moving hens by putting them and their nest into a dark cardboard box with some airholes and just putting the box somewhere else. Unless she's an extremely nervous hen, she isn't going to leave the nest, not with her pipping, peeping eggs under her.

 

[BlueBaby]

Either way, you need to follow the ants back to their hill and use something powdery that they can bring back down into the nest where the queen and her eggs are at. Kill them all!

 

[summerb123]

I will try moving her in the house... I'm hoping for the best! But I'll have to deal with my dad later...
But he can suck it up because I care about them!

 

[summerb123]

Either way, you need to follow the ants back to their hill and use something powdery that they can bring back down into the nest where the queen and her eggs are at. Kill them all!

Yeah I need to do that ASAP! We have really bad ant problem on our property! Everywhere you step is another ant hill! My legs are covered in scars from ants! ugh! I hate ants with a passion!

 

[Shamo Hybrid]

Either way, you need to follow the ants back to their hill and use something powdery that they can bring back down into the nest where the queen and her eggs are at. Kill them all!

Remind me not to get on your bad side......

 

[BlueBaby]

Remind me not to get on your bad side......

I'm just a mother hen who protects my flock. Those ant's will even climb up on the adults and try to eat them alive too! I just took care of 6 different ant hills, and that was just in my backyard!

 

[summerb123]

OK the chick is still alive I am leaving it in the shell and dampening the membrane with warm water every so often and the heat is 99F... I'm doing the best I can! It is doing a little better from when I found it... I thought I was dead until it twitched its wing... Now its not as limp, its trying to fight when I open its beak...

 

[BlueBaby]

OK the chick is still alive I am leaving it in the shell and dampening the membrane with warm water every so often and the heat is 99F... I'm doing the best I can! It is doing a little better from when I found it... I thought I was dead until it twitched its wing... Now its not as limp, its trying to fight when I open its beak...

Has it finished hatching yet so that you can have a good look at it yet?