Pollitos6
Songster
- Apr 30, 2018
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OMG how stressful situation I bet. Glad everything turned out ok.
Ugh, I should have thought to partition off this nesting box last night. I’m out of town and noticed on the chick cam that my leghorn was attacking the momma Silkie and her chicks. Worse yet, no one was home to stop it. I called my neighbor and he went over right away to stop it. I think we caught it in time, the black chick in the video laid there for about fifteen minutes before my neighbor put her back under the mother Silkie. She’s now moving around, so I’m hoping she’s fine. The momma Silkie and the leghorn were all out fighting for about twenty minutes, but the Silkie is less than half her size.
Lesson for me moving forward is to partition off the nesting box around day 20 from now on and place food and water in it.