Let me ask you something. If you free ranged and a hen sat on a clutch in a nest outside and you knew which hen this was but didn't find her nest until after she had killed her chicks, would you still kill that hen?I disagree totally. I’ve had hens kill and maim chicks as soon as they hatch. Perfectly healthy chicks right out of the shell the hen just destroys them. Whenever I’ve had this issue I’ve taken the chicks and either raised them myself or if lucky enough gave them to another hen that would accept them. I then immediately killed the hen. End of story. I’ve had countless less than year old hens hatch all their eggs and raise their chicks just fine than to play around with birds with mental problems.