Crazed chicken

[andersonmlpa]

I need a lot of help. I have a chicken who was sitting for three weeks in a different location than the regular chicken coop and the rest of the group because of this we let her sit outside the coop so that she could hatch her eggs . sometime in the last 48 hours she did hatch 6 eggs but before I noticed she had killed 4 of them she killed four by pecking them to death, I found two of them this afternoon just after they hatched still alive and took them and One egg is also in the process of hatching. I have all three of them in an incubator right now keeping warm and waiting for the other egg to hatch. I pulled the other five eggs and put it under a different broody chicken inside the coop in the hopes that they would hatch , this particular chicken has gone back to that nest every single time I have pulled her off and insists on still sitting there with no eggs she’s raising Cane, but if I put her near her chicks, she tries to peck them. What am I supposed to do with this chicken Help has she just gone crazy ?

 

[sourland]

I'd cage her away from her nest site to break her broodiness and never allow her to set again. In all species that are some individuals that will never be good mothers. Humans are not immune from this.

 

[andersonmlpa]

I'd cage her away from her nest site to break her broodiness and never allow her to set again. In all species that are some individuals that will never be good mothers. Humans are not immune from this.

Thank you , I don’t know why I didn’t think of that. I’m so preoccupied with the two that I did save one doesn’t seem to be able to hold its head yet and seems to be gasping for air . I believe from pain though I can’t tell where .additionally it will not open its eyes so I’m afraid that might be damaged as well as possibly her neck . I can’t remember how these little ones are at birth.