Help!!! Baby chicks hatched from broody mom injured!

[Barred34]

Don’t have much time. Hen hatched 2 chicks just now. I wasn’t home so I found one on the run floor and the other in the coop. Ones back has no feathers and it’s back is red it also isn’t standing up but breathing. Other isn’t standing up but breathing . What should I do ???? Have never had this happen before

 

[Barred34]

 

[abenardini]

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I'm so sorry to hear about this scenario. Most likely these birds will not survive if they haven't passed already. This can happen and is sad, regardless.

 

[Barred34]

I'm so sorry to hear about this scenario. Most likely these birds will not survive if they haven't passed already. This can happen and is sad, regardless.

There still alive. Ones doing better but the other I dunno. She has two more eggs which should be hatching soon

 

[abenardini]

There still alive. Ones doing better but the other I dunno. She has two more eggs which should be hatching soon

Hope everything turns out for the best

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

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The broody is not a good mother. She likes to sit on eggs but does not want baby chicks.
You'll have to put them in a brooder with food and water and a heat source of some kind.

 

[picklestheduck]

Do you think the hen rejected her babies and attacked them?

 

[Sussex19]

At least one of them look like it's been badly pecked, is the mother separated from the rest of the flock or not?
If not try to keep any other hens away from the nest.

 

[Barred34]

Update: both chicks are dead sadly. There are two more eggs both are fertile. I placed the hen in her own separate enclosure because before she was in the normal nesting boxes. Hopeful we have more success with these two

 

[Barred34]

Do you think the hen rejected her babies and attacked them?

She was in our public nesting box so I assume they just got pecked on by the other hens. She is a polish and is the smallest.