Okay, you have roosters; roosters can really cause damage with their spurs, beaks and claws. I remember reading a thread not too long ago on one of the chicken sites where someone nearly lost an eye from a rooster's attack. Make sure you relay that information to the parents--even if your roosters are too young to have spurs, or are not aggressive. You do not have to mention that to them. Just that they can be a danger...because they very definitely can.
Absolutely give the parents a bill for the chicks, (including all the feed that you have given them to get to that stage of development. Also place No Trespassing signs on all sides of your property. Get some stakes and marking tape and mark the property bounds to the best of your knowledge.
You realized that the chicks were trampled and injured and dying/dead. Did the child? He might have been laughing and smiling at how much they liked his treats, not at the destruction he was causing.
Now I am going to make a statement that may be seen as non-supportive--sorry, but if the chicks were not extremely hungry, I cannot see them being so desperateto reach food that they would trample each other to death. I am also wondering how many you have in that coop that this would happen?
Absolutely give the parents a bill for the chicks, (including all the feed that you have given them to get to that stage of development. Also place No Trespassing signs on all sides of your property. Get some stakes and marking tape and mark the property bounds to the best of your knowledge.
You realized that the chicks were trampled and injured and dying/dead. Did the child? He might have been laughing and smiling at how much they liked his treats, not at the destruction he was causing.
Now I am going to make a statement that may be seen as non-supportive--sorry, but if the chicks were not extremely hungry, I cannot see them being so desperateto reach food that they would trample each other to death. I am also wondering how many you have in that coop that this would happen?