A couple days ago I moved one of my older hens (a female who has raised multiple clutches successfully, though sometimes for no reason attacks her chicks) to a crate with her chick, Reliance. She didn't like that and killed her baby, scalping it. It was horrible. So when the next babies hatched I gave them to Eve, a good mother who has never attacked chicks, and moved her to a crate as another hen was trying to get on her nest to lay an egg. She attacked her baby, Marzipan, leaving it without a face (it has a beak, but no skin over the eyes or throat). It's in the incubator but I just have no idea what to do. I'm not asking for advice, as there is no advice for what to do for a missing face. : (
Anyways, I just had to share because it's been a tough day today and the heat is bothering the chickens and they've been fighting and arguing and one of them has an illness I've lost multiple chickens to and I can only hope it will get better with time. Only one other chicken in my flock has.
Sigh. Anyways, keep little Marzipan in you're prayers that he can heal quickly or else not suffer when he passes. Right now he is walking around and chirping so I'm giving him the benefit-of-a-doubt. I've had chicks with as big injuries survive, but they were far older than him.
Before and after
Anyways, I just had to share because it's been a tough day today and the heat is bothering the chickens and they've been fighting and arguing and one of them has an illness I've lost multiple chickens to and I can only hope it will get better with time. Only one other chicken in my flock has.
Sigh. Anyways, keep little Marzipan in you're prayers that he can heal quickly or else not suffer when he passes. Right now he is walking around and chirping so I'm giving him the benefit-of-a-doubt. I've had chicks with as big injuries survive, but they were far older than him.
Before and after
This must be such a hard thing to go through and watch.
