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they are somewhat more fragile than they were the previous years. I will treat my chickens like a pair of retired pensioners from now on :old fortunately she still lays some eggs. How long should I expect them to live before they die of natural death?:hit

Can bantams still breed over 5 years of age?

My Bantam hen eggs aren't hatching it's already the second attempt I do this year(summer). Both my hen and my rooster are 5 years old

Hello, I own a bantam hen and a bantam rooster and they are both 5 years old it's the third year I am letting them try hatch some chicks but this summer out of 7 eggs (2 different hatching attempts) none have hatched. Is it possible that both my hen and rooster are old and infertile? Previous...

Close the door. I had one hen pullet being killed and brought away by a mongrel cat. I don't have a run used to let them free range all day but after three weeks this happened so I always leave them closed in their coop and let them free range only when I am around and have them in sight the...

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If it doesn't smell of rot just try continue incubating the egg maybe it will hatch anyways. Try and send some private message to the experts of the site ('golden feather' users and such) like 1muttsfan this user seems to be very helpful and always online answering question.

I couldn't focus the pictures more than this. The pictures didn't come out so well. I actually thought number 1 and 2 were the fertile ones and not 3 and 4. Because 1 & 2 had the typical bullseye structure while 3 & 4 only had the empty blastodisc with irregular uncircular shape. They are bantam...

I'm not an expert. But I would stiil keep the egg till the end of the incubation days. It could still be alive.

Which one out of these four eggs is a viable/fertilised egg? Thank you!! -see embedded image-

Last year I had one of my bantam chickens eaten by a stray cat I counted nearly ten of them and I think it is the nearby inn owners that feeds most of them with the left overs. It simply disappeared leaving only few feathers behind. Now I always keep them locked in their small coop (ex rabbit...

I got a brown eyed baby hen she is only about two months old with black-brown feathers. Her eyes are very big and bulge out of her face in a quite funny manner and hope the other hen won't peck them because they both get into fights quite often and so I will be forced to separate them. She has...