I swear it's enough to make me want to quit chickens for good.
I'd gone down to the coop to check on the chicks & see if the struggling one was progressing @ all. All seemed well but as we've had a ton of rain [thanks, Koji!
] I stayed to scour the run for the bits of broken glass & pottery that always seem to turn up after a deluge & because the Fitzroy is threatening to flood I wanted to check the run over in case we got a lot more rain. So imagine my horror, on hearing a squabble in the coop, to find Chavi ferociously pecking @ the chick with the occasional help from its other mother!
The poor little thing was cowering in absolute terror so I scooped her up [ think I have another 2 pullets] & popped her under Mustard Seed, who seemed a little surprised but accepting.
Both chicks seem to be doing well. The older is starting to move around inside the nesting box. These two seem to be doing fine in the mothering department
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