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[carcar80]

There has GOT to be a story behind this question.... do tell.

Here here.

 

[Flowerbh]

What if I just got a New Brinsea MINI ECO 10 Egg Incubator to hatch in. It doesn't come with a turner and I won't need one if I just hatch. Are they any good?

 

[valleychicks]

There has GOT to be a story behind this question.... do tell.

Well...a few days ago I found a dead little wild bird in one of the chicken pens. They had been in the pen the day before but I just thought well the bird must have flew into something. Today however I saw our Red Star (Buffy) running around with a dead bird in her beak. All the others started running after her, one grabbed the bird from her then another got the bird and ran with it. It was rather gruesome. I got it from them and noticed it hadn't been dead long so one of them, possibly Buffy must have killed the bird. Guess that makes her Buffy the Bird killer.

Makes me a little worried about the chicks in the separate are of the barn coop with their mamas.

 

[carcar80]

What if I just got a New Brinsea MINI ECO 10 Egg Incubator to hatch in.  It doesn't come with a turner and I won't need one if I just hatch.  Are they any good?

How "mini" are we talking!?

 

[RoboDuck]

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It's entirely possible. Chickens will eat anything, including each other. If that bird lit close enough to one and she happened to grab it, I suppose it's possible but I'd lean more toward it was already dead and they just took advantage.

 

[valleychicks]

It's entirely possible. Chickens will eat anything, including each other. If that bird lit close enough to one and she happened to grab it, I suppose it's possible but I'd lean more toward it was already dead and they just took advantage.

It was still warm.

 

[valleychicks]

@carcar80 , how did the bumblefoot surgery go?

 

[RoboDuck]

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It could have flown into the fence and gotten picked up by the chickens just before you saw the event. I wouldn't concern myself about having zombie killer chickens or anything. But it's well known adult hens will peck to death babies that don't belong to them. Little ones can't be added to the adult pen until they are old enough to defend themselves or run fast enough to avoid injury.

 

[valleychicks]

It could have flown into the fence and gotten picked up by the chickens just before you saw the event. I wouldn't concern myself about having zombie killer chickens or anything. But it's well known adult hens will peck to death babies that don't belong to them. Little ones can't be added to the adult pen until they are old enough to defend themselves or run fast enough to avoid injury.

Yeah, I hope you're right. I wouldn't mind them getting the little fat mouse that keeps running around the coops though. What age would be good to add the chicks to the coops with the others? I plan/hope to sell most of the chicks at the McD chicken swap but would like to know for future chicks.

 

[RoboDuck]

It depends on the breed of chicken. Some grow faster than others. But when they are fully feathered and at least a third the size of the adults, we'll move them into the big pen. But we watch them to make sure everyone is going to be ok. You just have to figure out the difference between establishing pecking order and true aggression with intent to harm.