Recent content by Niki Murray

Thanks so much for your response. The hen was alone in a separate nesting box away from the others. We also tried to introduce the new born chick back to Mum as I'd read that it can be done. We followed all suggestions, but Mum wasn't having it and started pecking very hard so it was back to...

Hi there, I am hoping for some help. I have 10 chickens all of various ages. 9 girls and a rooster One of my girls was broody and sat on her eggs. We found one dead as it was hatching, still half inside the shell and the other one starting to pip. We ended up incubating the pipping egg as we...