Mice

[littlechick2000]

I had a chick hatching yesterday and into the night. I went to the coop today looking forward to meeting my third chick of this hatch but she was dead. Drug into the corner farthest from the nest. She was bloody and chewed up. The coop is raised up fairly high from the ground (yes im moving the chicks to a new coop so they don't fall and die) and we have a price of metal with small holes covering the entrance. Mice are the only thing I could think to do this. I know it's not ants because I've seen ants eat a chicken. The chick still looked like a chick but with one eye bloody and missing and a hole in its side but no intestines missing. Id like some more opinions

 

[bobbi-j]

Could be the hen sensed something wrong with the chick and nature took its course.

 

[ChristopherMic]

Put Rat and Mice Killer Food in the holes and then Cover the Holes with Rocks. Try to Enclose the Area where they are laying the eggs. You could buy a Animal Video Camera and put it up somewhere in your Coop so you can see what is going on.

Heres a cheap Video camera that works good:

http://www.mackspw.com/Item--i-WILW...OaiNbJO4ZwJL6qzLevTI1GZjY2xjANT7lLRoCw7Tw_wcB