Missing chick?

[Catastrophic]

Yesterday I discovered that one of my broody silkies hatched their first-ever chick. Then the next day I found the silkie in the run without the chick and that was the first bad sign. Then I checked the nesting boxes to see if it was there or if my broody Orpington had it. I found nothing. I checked the coop for the body but found nothing. It was a day old and I also found a trail of feathers close to my coop but those were not my chickens but the neighbor's chickens that sometimes wander to my yard. Any guesses will help.

 

[sourland]

I would guess that it was eaten by something - rat, snake, hawk, a member of the flock ----------

 

[Catastrophic]

The chickens were being aggressive with the mother hen a lot. And it was her first time having a chick and she was the lowest in the pecking order.

 

[Sapphirerenee92]

I also have a disappearing chicken....
I have 3 baby chicks and due to some crazy weather, their brooding box got ruined. I had to move them to the big coop so they could be dry and cozy on their own. I went to check on them this evening and one is missing! I'm talking, just disappeared.... no trace. And no way out of that coop....any ideas?

 

[Catastrophic]

We’re they with other chickens? We’re there any holes in the coop we’re they can escape?

 

[Sapphirerenee92]

We’re they with other chickens? We’re there any holes in the coop we’re they can escape?

No holes that I can see...and I only have the 3 chicks. Just starting up.

 

[Catastrophic]

Hmm that is difficult one could be rats or snakes they can get in coops anywhere. If you have anything on the ground near the coop. I once had a feed on the floor when I started keeping birds and I lifted it up one day and found a couple of mice running out under the feed we’re they were living the chickens later ate them.