Mean mama hen and missing chick

Ashliischafer

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Jul 13, 2018
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My 3 hens recently hatched 10 healthy chicks! For the first week everything was going fine and the mama hens were caring for and getting along with the chicks. I left town for a couple days (leaving plenty food and water) and came home to one chick missing and one hen being very lonely and mean. The other two hens are now staying and caring for the remaining chicks in the run while the mean hen is in the hen house and acts as though she wants to attack you. When she goes into the run, the other hens attack and chase her away from the babies. She has always been friendly so her behavior is very odd! I'm very curious as to what happened? Did the mean hen eat the missing baby chick and that's why the others want to keep her away? Why did she turn on the chick? Why is she acting so strange? I need answers
 
Well what I'm thinking is being you had all 3 Hens together with babies some chicks belong to each Momma and generally they don't want or like other Hens chicks. I'm thinking hers are stolen from her. The missing one you will never know exactly what happened? I keep my momma hens all separated for a couple of weeks.
 

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