My Silkie's are too violent to new chicken

[650695]

Hi all, We've had a few silkie chickens for a year now with one very large rooster and a rather small hen who appears to really like the rooster. She's recently become broody and just won't go out of her coop. We recently got a new young chicken of a different breed and put it in the garden to let them familiarize with each other. The large rooster was initially wary of the new chicken but kind of tolerates it now but the broody hen seems to be out for blood. She will actively run towards and attack the new one if they're in the same environment. Initially if the new chicken went into the coop and got close to the eggs is when the other hen would attack but now if it's in line of sight of the hen in the garden, she will sprint towards it to attack. We keep the new chicken seperately at night inside.

I recently noticed that the new chicken's neck and shoulder are bloody and this really got it into me that the hen is trying to actually kill this new chick. I don't know what to do regarding this new chicken as it's still very young, maybe a month or two old and is the absoloute sweetest.

 

[SmiYa0126]

Chickens are vicious. Do you have a place.for the chicks to run away from attacks? You may need to put her in time out for a few days.

 

[nuthatched]

Did you, after a months quarantine, let them see each other on either side of fence for a few weeks?

 

[650695]

Chickens are vicious. Do you have a place.for the chicks to run away from attacks? You may need to put her in time out for a few days.

We have a whole garden which the hen doesn't seem to go about anymore given that she's broody, it's just the coop where the new chick will keep trying to enter where she'll then get attacked

 

[650695]

Did you, after a months quarantine, let them see each other on either side of fence for a few weeks?

I'm completely new to chicken keeping, we've only had the same chickens that we got initially and as such, they were raised together. This new chick is the first arrival for the silkies.

 

[TX Chick Noob]

Sounds like you need to start over with integration. There are a lot of good threads on that here if you do a search.

 

[3KillerBs]

I'm completely new to chicken keeping, we've only had the same chickens that we got initially and as such, they were raised together. This new chick is the first arrival for the silkies.

Here are some useful articles on integration:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/introducing-new-chickens-using-the-“see-but-don’t-touch”-method.67839/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/adding-to-your-flock.47756/