Broody hen killings babies

[MysteryChicken]

Thats what I've heard!

I have several silkies, & 3 sitting on eggs, plus a Silkie mix.

 

[Charitylb1576]

I have a 3yr old Golden Laced Wyandotte, this is her first Hatch she is aways from the other chickens. I thought her eggs would hatch 12 or 13th. They didn't I know some can go to 25days.
Well this morning we found a new hatchling outside the box and another one dead on the otherwise. When I looks at the video I was horrified to seen that my hen was pecking then and throwing them around like food! She threw them outside the nest. The dead one hatched last night and she was just tossing around the enclosed like food
My husband heard the one from this morning and saved it we put it in the incubator.
But whyyy she was sitting so well and now this!

I'm so sorry this happened! Our golden laced Wyandotte was given fertilized eggs but they didn't hatch so we tried to give her day old chicks and she started pecking them in the head so we had to grab them fast. The chicks are 4 weeks now and she is getting used to them being around the yard and we put them in a mesh cat outdoor tent. So they can free range safely and she can't get to them, but they can still see each other. She has stopped lunging at them. We are crossing our fingers she accepts them at 6-12 weeks as the snow and cold will be starting here.
She has never accepted any new outside bird, did the same to our pekin ducks so much she drew blood on one of them and we ended up giving them to a neighboring farm as we were concerned for the ducks safety.
Wyandottes are moody even when they aren't broody. Ours is the only adult hen, but has always been at the top of the pecking order. I definitely did not get anymore golden laced Wyandottes. The chicks are Barred Rock and so much more relaxed.
But I would remove them and introduce them again when they are older and put her in what we call broody jail, just a kennel she has to stay in until she stops being so ornery.