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Yeah this is true.. I did enquire at local vets who are unhelpful, and also recently at the vets and stock feeds about vaccinations for my expectant new chicks too because for me this was a concern but unfortunately there isn't much offered for chickens around here I only have Two hens now...

Sorry I haven't been on things got really hectic this year .. At the time that you posted yes he grew up to become a gorgeous buff coloured rooster that looked much like his pekin mama and behaved much like his wynedotte papa who was also super cuddly and cheeky. The other eggs never hatched and...

No so far not she's been sitting on the eggs so I can barely see them, but I can see that none have actually hatched I looked up how long it takes for and egg to hatch once it starts on google and it says up to 24 hours? That seems like an awfully long time but it's been 24 hours by now so...

That's good news, maybe she's a sweet heart after all :-/ I always thought she was so stand offish and wild, the only time I've bothered to handle her was right at the beginning when I had to treat her for scaly leg mites and she was very hard to catch and hold then so we just leave her alone...

I did go to get a new little cage today, it's not wire bottom though, just a small triangle shaped 'guinea pig hutch' but it should do the job as a nest box/baby chick enclosure so that I can have the crate back or use this one for emergency when the crate is occupied, that's all I could get...

Yes haha maybe next time I should give that a go! I didn't aim for chicks, I didn't really think that any of the eggs would actually even hatch to be honest, the rooster is so young, but I just let them all do their thing and this happened. I've put food and water in both the nest boxes today...

Ok so the black one must have went broody without laying any and/or we might have been collecting fertile eggs from them before we decided to just start leaving them alone to see what happened? The black hen lays white eggs that's how I know they are all the pekins eggs they are all brown, so...

Yes please, I'd rather she stop and hopefully get well also I wonder if you know why, after all this time there is only 4 eggs? They are all the pekin eggs, the black one usually would lay every day and she's been broody for much longer but never even laid one egg

I just bit the bullet and did it hey, I picked her up with a towel but she didn't fight me which was surprising we put the eggs (there are only 3 eggs, all pekin eggs?) in the new nest and then the baby chick in which is sooo adorable it has fluffy feet!!! And then her and she went had a drink...

Thanks heaps. My thought was to create a seperate nest box, add food and the waterer to it (which is one of those dine-a-chook automatic waterers that is safe, the other water dishes etc are just small bowls, baking trays etc I have many scattered around that I fill in this heat, but for the...

yeah I'm quite worried about the chickens getting trapped or poisoned themselves I'm unsure where to put a trap. They have been around way before I had chickens, my neighbour is a feral hoarder so they mostly stay over in that house but every now and then I do see one run through I try not to...

This is a photo of the situation. Poor pekin girl looks awful, she isn't 100% and won't come out to look after her self just wants to stay on the nest. The black girl is very healthy, but she's not a friendly hen she will run away and struggle to be held so I'm worried how much she would freak...

Hi everyone! We have had TWO hens broody and sharing a nest together, they sit side by side and share each others eggs, occasionally one will get off to eat etc but majority of the time they are together in the nest box, there is no fighting etc I don't know how common this is? Anyway Today we...