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On Wednesday my broody hen successfully hatched 5 chicks, unfortunately one of my other hens started stealing chicks, and we lost 2 before we realised what was happening. Mummy hen and the 3 remaining babies were removed to a large plastic storage box in our downstairs bathroom. Today mummy hen...

There is a lip on the nest box, and the box is at the opposite side of the coop from the pop hole, so I don't think both eggs can have been removed by accident. My friend (who provided the eggs) came round this morning and rummaged about in my bin until she had managed to investigate the...

No, I didn't think to until after I'd thrown it away and of course it fell down the side of the bin and is now underneath about 3 days of rubbish, so I'm not fishing it back out!! This is all new to me, I didn't actually have any plans to hatch eggs, but Nugget was so determined to be broody...

The one I found wasn't broken, but it was stone cold and had obviously been there a while, so it went in the bin. It could be a rat, but I've not seen any signs of rat before and the chickens are next to the house, and the cat comes in and out through the chicken enclosure several time a day...

My broody hen has been sitting on 7 eggs for 2 1/2 weeks (due to hatch Thursday/Friday). We’ve been out all day and when I went to put the hens to bed this evening, and get the other 2 hens eggs, 2 of her eggs were missing from the nest. I found one of them at the bottom of the ramp out of the...

My 4 girls have been with us since late February, and were bought at point of lay, so are probably now about 7 months old, they are all hybrids. We had a little bit of trouble with them sorting out a pecking order and one of them (Popcorn) was left badly pecked and missing a lot of feathers, but...