Reaperprincess
Songster
Has anyone have this happen before. I recently hatched some chicks and the first three came out in the beginning of day 20. Normal enough right. But about 5 hours later later a new chick hatched and by then those three were walking around exploring the incubater. I didn't want to open the incubater too soon because of humidity so I left them. After the chick came out of the egg, healthy little thing chirping away, the others started pecking at them. I thought they were just exploring the new chick. But when i came back later they were dragging the chick's lifeless body around. Pecking and tugging. In the end i had to remove them before they endangered the rest of the chicks.
