R1ley
In the Brooder
- Jan 19, 2017
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Okay so just this morning I went to let the chickens out, feed/water them, etc. and I decide to go check on the nest my hen who had been brooding on. She currently has three live chicks however there are still about 10 eggs left in the nest, she has stopped sitting on them but I've decided to leave them for a day or two just in case to see if any more will hatch.
When I went inside the coop to check, I saw an egg that was empty and looked like a chick had hatched, however inside the egg shell it was all red and bloody. I went to look closer into the nest, and what I found was really gross. Basically there was a chick body resting by the hatched egg, however it's head was for some reason cut off from the rest of it's body?? It's body was lower from it, and it looks all squished up from another egg sitting on it.
How did this happen? It was really sad to see as I was so excited to have another chick hatch, I was thinking it could of been a crow or something but wouldn't the crow have eaten/flew away with the body? Another reason was maybe it got crushed by the other eggs in the nest, but then how come it's head is cut off?
I guess one of the chickens could of attacked it, but the current hens/rooster I have don't show any aggression to chicks or the eggs, they've been fine and there have been other hatching's in the past where nothings gone wrong. I'm just really confused at the moment.
When I went inside the coop to check, I saw an egg that was empty and looked like a chick had hatched, however inside the egg shell it was all red and bloody. I went to look closer into the nest, and what I found was really gross. Basically there was a chick body resting by the hatched egg, however it's head was for some reason cut off from the rest of it's body?? It's body was lower from it, and it looks all squished up from another egg sitting on it.
How did this happen? It was really sad to see as I was so excited to have another chick hatch, I was thinking it could of been a crow or something but wouldn't the crow have eaten/flew away with the body? Another reason was maybe it got crushed by the other eggs in the nest, but then how come it's head is cut off?
I guess one of the chickens could of attacked it, but the current hens/rooster I have don't show any aggression to chicks or the eggs, they've been fine and there have been other hatching's in the past where nothings gone wrong. I'm just really confused at the moment.
