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hello so I have 1 chick that piped 36 hours ago now and I just went to cheek on it and it’s cheeping very loudly but no external pip what should I do I don’t like doing assisted hatching

hello :frow I have recently had 2 broody hens with 7 eggs each and to day was ment to be day 19 but I forgot that 3 of the eggs were 2 days older and 2 of them have internally piped and today is very stormy I was going to buy chick crumb in 2 days but what do I feed the chicks if they hatch...

hello I have never hatched chicks under a hen before and have always used incubators About 8 months ago I had 2 hens go broody and they both sat on a clutch of about 10-12 but they both stopped sitting after a week because my cockerel would go in the house kick them off there eggs. But 3 days...

this morning I looked in the coop to find my 1 year old polish hen spread out on the floor taking slow light breaths with her eyes shut her head was slightly responsive and 10 mins later she died I looked at her skin and it was coverd in mites could this be what killed her and is my flock in...

hello so my friend rescued this bantam and we were wonder what kind of breed it is comment any ideas thankyou

Hello so I have 2 female polish frizzle and non frizzle bantams 2 female lavender Pekin 1 male lavender pekin 1 female blue silkie 2 female buff silkies 1 male black silkie 1 red male silkie all living in a big space not separated my friend wanted to try hatching eggs so asked saying she...

hi so I have always incubated my fertile eggs and I was hoping one of my beautiful silkie hens would go broody and to my delight last week I found her sitting on what I thought was a clutch of 7 eggs but I diddnt want to disturb her to much I had a vary busy week and completely forgot that she...

hey this is my first time with quail 5 have hatched fine but one of them was really struggling even tho It was pretty much hatched I peeled of the membrane that was stuck to its fethers because it was drying and getting stuck when I noticed it’s wing was completely bent the wrong way compared to...

hey basicaly I set some button quail eggs a few weeks ago and I had a busy week and completely forgot to order some quail chick crumb this is my first time with quail I just got home and relised it’s day 16 I looked in the incubator and 2 have started to hatch and I only have chick crumb for...

so I went to go cheek on my 3 day old chicks and noticed one had it’s foot behind him so I picked him up and the top of the foot was caught in the umbilical cord thing I got his foot out but now he walks with it behind him what can u do leave him make a support

somone please help I went to go cheek on my chick and I noticed one had it’s foot up very swollen it can’t walk and is in Pain :hitI think it’s broken what can I do

Hello, so I have bought 12 cotunix and 12 Chinese quail hatching eggs offline but I have know clue what to house them in and I don’t mind making something anyone got any ideas are area where they are going is currently 6’ by 4’ concrete slabs and our budget is about £80

I have 8 silkie eggs and I just got home to see that my incubator was at 25.6 degrees c :hitI just put them into a different incubator that had been running for about a week but what do I do will these eggs be dead I presume they have been cold for about 5/6 hours :barnie

hey so I’m on Wednesday evening and 1 out of 3 older eggs is hatching the other 7 eggs are hatching in 4 days but because this egg is 3 days late I presume the same for The others so there will be a 4 day gab between them will it be ok on it’s own for that long any tips

hey in about 8 hours my silkie eggs would have been in for 23 days I have hatched silkies before and they take 21 every time but that was in the summer due to a cold week my incubator was a bit low 36.9-37.5 yesterday I was worried about the eggs so I candled them 2 of the 3 had clearly died but...

hi so I had my incubator set at 37.5 when I went to bed I have 3 9 day old eggs and 13 4 day old eggs I went to check the bator in the morning (8 hours ) and it was 18 .2 degrees the eggs were cold I am freaking out the temp has fluctuated a lot during this incubation but the eggs have...

I need help I put 12 eggs in my incubator yesterday and there were 4 in there that are 5 days old already I went to bed and they were 37.5 but I woke up and it was 34.4 I tried to see it again this morning but it still wouldn’t get to temp I have just got home and it’s still 34-35 .2 what should...

hello I hatched some chicks last year and I had about 16 but 2 of them I bought and they are 2 months older than all of them they 2 were a red cockerel and blue hen my hen stared laying last week and I was hoping my younger black cockerel would fertilise her so I put her eggs in the incubator...

i have a healthy 8 year old silkie hen and she stoped laying about 2 years ago but And to my surprise I found her sitting on 10 eggs today I’m 100% sure they are hers because she lives in a house by herself and last time checked her coup was a week ago I do have a cockrall and was thinking mabey...

iv had chickens all my life but decided 3 and 1/2 months ago I wanted to raise some myself so I did I hatched 4 silkies and bought two the older ones.one is a ginger who is a boy and a blue one that is a girl the other 4 are 2 black and 2 ginger but I’m not sure on the gender my idea was that I...