alisonb
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Think one of my bantams is racist. As her eggs started hatching she viciously killed the black chicks leaving one pretty little white one which she now proudly struts around with :shock:
My father and I runs commercial chickens for Gold'n'Plump and our chickens are white broilers. We ran 50,000 chickens at one time and we would got some black chickens occasionally. The white ones will gang up them and peck them unstoppable. Sometimes I swore that chickens are racists.alisonb":1rwyzstb said:Think one of my bantams is racist. As her eggs started hatching she viciously killed the black chicks leaving one pretty little white one which she now proudly struts around with :shock:
This is the first time that I have encountered this, especially with a bantam...they so love to have a clutch of chicks around them. Have even put Guinea fowl eggs under them and they adopt as their own. The guinea fowl bond really strongly with the hen and will remember her for years after that.Rafter S":ravqjshi said:She'd take care of them just like the ones she'd hatched.
Do the black one's taste the same as the white one'sTaurus":ravqjshi said:We ran 50,000 chickens at one time and we would got some black chickens occasionally.
alisonb":2h0tzkip said:Well, perhaps she's not racist after all seeings she's black herself . Here she is took her poor little chick out in minus temps this morning...not a very good mother.
This is the first time that I have encountered this, especially with a bantam...they so love to have a clutch of chicks around them. Have even put Guinea fowl eggs under them and they adopt as their own. The guinea fowl bond really strongly with the hen and will remember her for years after that.Rafter S":2h0tzkip said:She'd take care of them just like the ones she'd hatched.
Do the black one's taste the same as the white one'sTaurus":2h0tzkip said:We ran 50,000 chickens at one time and we would got some black chickens occasionally.
Yes Jo, have seen them kill another if there was something wrong with it. This was just weird.