Help! Silkies gone crazy!

[Cool_Catrules456]

One silkie chick was killed and eaten! And this chick is badly hurt! What do I do. There are four silkie chicks. Now three. I have some anti bacterial spray, but I dont know if it’s safe for chicks. Here is the chick and the injury.

Here is the undamaged side.

Incase you can’t tell the eye is crested over. He keeps calling to the other two. But one of them had to have done this. The problem is I can’t tell who! And I can’t leave this one alone! Help!

 

[Feather queen]

The antibacterial spray should be fine, but you could also use warm salty water and a cotton bud to clean the eye. Some sugar water and some scrambled egg also might help perk the little one up. In order to see which chick it was that hurt the little one maybe put 1 chick with this one and watch it, than swap and do the other?

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

The antibacterial spray should be fine, but you could also use warm salty water and a cotton bud to clean the eye. Some sugar water and some scrambled egg also might help perk the little one up. In order to see which chick it was that hurt the little one maybe put 1 chick with this one and watch it, than swap and do the other?

Tried it. All seems to be fine now that the other is dead… I dont know though. I will try again before making a decision

 

[Feather queen]

Tried it. All seems to be fine now that the other is dead… I dont know though. I will try again before making a decision

I hope everything goes well

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

The antibacterial spray should be fine, but you could also use warm salty water and a cotton bud to clean the eye. Some sugar water and some scrambled egg also might help perk the little one up. In order to see which chick it was that hurt the little one maybe put 1 chick with this one and watch it, than swap and do the other?

This one is clingler than normal to the black silkie chick. So probably no harm done from the black one, the other partridge is ignoring them. So must have been the now dead white silkie? Could the black one have saved this one’s life?

 

[Feather queen]

This one is clingler than normal to the black silkie chick. So probably no harm done from the black one, the other partridge is ignoring them. So must have been the now dead white silkie? Could the black one have saved this one’s life?

It could have, iv found that chicks have a friend that they always hang out with, I had a 3-day oldAraucana chick that protected a day-old silkie chick from its siblings.
e.g only 1 chick hatched in a clutch I was incubating so I went and bought 3 Araucana friends for it, 2 ignored it but the other one bonded with it right away, unfortunately, it passed away, and the chick's friend screamed for it for 2-3 days straight. I went looking again and found some more chicks After I bought them I found out they were 2-3 week-old exchequer leghorns, not the 6-days old I was told they were. somehow the lonely chick bonded with the other lot and now there almost fully grown and still hang out together.

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

that's so sad, chicks will peck at wounded or injured chicks, out of curiosity or to remove a potential weakness. The overall safety of the other chicks is important though so maybe you could buy some slightly older chicks or some chicks of another breed that are bigger than the black silkie chick so that he can have some friends yet not be able to bully them.

I don’t know, I may just keep him separate until the other heals. Hopefully that will fix it, but if he gets aggressive again, he will be given to someone who can deal with him better than I can. I will let him and the one he is not bulling out togeather while I comfort the injured chick. They will be isolated mostly at night and days I can’t spend too much time with them. But for now the health of the other chicks are more important.

Plus I have other chicks coming in a few months and I dont want to make the flock too large. I know this chicks health is important too, but he ate another chick! I think he will be fine separate for a week or so. I did not expect to have a chick to cannibalize their own brooder buddy, especially a silkie.

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

I let them all outside together, they seem to be fine, I will leep them separated until the other one heals however, but it could have been the protecting idea? I don’t know. I just want to play it safe, as I don’t want to be down to two chicks. If I can keep it at 3 even though one gets a life long injury. Thats fine.

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

that's so sad, chicks will peck at wounded or injured chicks, out of curiosity or to remove a potential weakness. The overall safety of the other chicks is important though so maybe you could buy some slightly older chicks or some chicks of another breed that are bigger than the black silkie chick so that he can have some friends yet not be able to bully them.

Help.. theres only one left now! What happened?! They’re are also missing their organs, The injured one and the black one are dead, only the other partridge is left. It couldn’t have been a rat as the one is still alive, so what killed them?! And what should I do to protect the last chick?! The last chick couldn’t have done this, he/she was bonded to the others!

 

[Cool_Catrules456]