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Thank you so much for your support. I think I'll leave mum and chicks in the stable for a couple of weeks as there is plenty of room and I shut it up at night to keep out predators. PS is that a Pyrenees guarding your chooks?

Yay my 5th blue shrink-wrapped chick is hanging in there and improving. I'm sure I saw it pecking at food and it's mobility is much better too.

Photo shows 4 of the cute siblings - 3 older and 1 newly hatched. Our shrink-wrapped chick not hatched yet is in the blue egg in the box

I have mum and chicks in a separate old stable with hay bedding on the concrete floor. Mum has a cardboard box on its side that she retreats into with her chicks. Chick food and water within easy reach. On last check the chick is now slowly mobile but nowhere near as active or agile as its...

Well surprisingly the chick is still alive but markedly weaker and less mobile than its siblings. I haven't seen it eating yet either. Should it be starting to eat at a day old?

Thank you. Both mumma hen and I are new to hatching/ raising chicks. She has been incredible given the drawn out circumstances of the incubation and hatch.The chick s head was obviously stuck and it was unable to free its head. Perhaps I should have just left it at freeing the top half but I...

I had 2 young pullets go broody after a month laying so I gave the first one 8 fertile eggs. The other broody joined her a few days later and was thieving her eggs so I ended up giving her 4 of her own. Not that that worked as they played musical eggs every time one of them got off their nest...