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    Failed hatch after failed hatch? what am i doing wrong?

    Thank you for the info, what a informative article, much appreciated. This was last night when i locked her up usually the door is open that she is next to. I can already see the many mistakes i made, shall i leave her and the eggs for now unless she breaks another say? Would she know...
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    Failed hatch after failed hatch? what am i doing wrong?

    Little girl :) and thanks. Yeah I know she was eating the eggs herself as every time shed have yolk on her face, the last time she ate one I did move and clean them and put her in a clean ground level coop. she's a very large old brahma, doesn't move around so well but she can get around...
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    Failed hatch after failed hatch? what am i doing wrong?

    yeah i thought that could be the case in the incubator aand have order and hygrometer and thermometer seperate to the inbuilt one for futhur use. As for the hen she was sitting on some eggs i removed them and put these in i put way to many eggs at first like 20 i think, my wife had our baby...
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    Failed hatch after failed hatch? what am i doing wrong?

    Fertility rates are high, almost every egg is viabile at both the 7 day and 14 day check for both times in the incubator and under the broody
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    Failed hatch after failed hatch? what am i doing wrong?

    So i brought a brinsea incubator. put 10 eggs in it and hatched 10 - this was the first time i used it. I gave it a clean put 24 eggs in Checked viability via candling at day 7 and 14 - fine and they all failed, i had left the auto rotator on untill day 19 so assumed this was the reason for my...
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    Reintegrating mama hen and chicks to flock

    Hey! Thanks for the reply! Momma and chicks have been in their own run and coop in a shared space with the main run and coop so chicks and hens have been exposed for the whole month. All had been going well in the hour or so a day i had been letting them all in the joint space. Then the bully...
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    Reintegrating mama hen and chicks to flock

    So Ive got issue. Im trying to reintegrate my Mumma hen and chicks. Ive let them in a shared space an hour at a time to start. however one of last years pullets is constantly attacking Mumma hen. She is being submissive but it doesn't seem to matter, when she attacks A few of my other hens have...
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    4 soft shell eggs this morning

    They are just about to come into lay, potentially first eggs I have 6 established girls, I rescued all a variety of ages, youngest was already a year when I got them so not experience this young stuff before as the 4 POL i got only 4 weeks ago, someone contacted a local vet and had raised them...
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    4 soft shell eggs this morning

    Sorry i keep panicking and making posts but this morning i have found 4 soft shell eggs in my coop- i only have 4 POL is it possible each one has laid one? or could one bird have laid a few? i have two birds that were sisters from the same hatch could each of them laid two? I have put plenty of...
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    4th egg is a GIANT - any cause for concern?

    Thanks, everyone! I am really loving this forum! you are all so friendly and helpful! This disabled Chicken keeper thanks you all!
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    4th egg is a GIANT - any cause for concern?

    The egg on the right was from 2 days ago this larger egg is from this morning. this was the birds 3rd and 4th egg ( the first being shelless that i made a post about) Its the biggest egg ive had and ive got some much much older birds age of layer - Circa - 4 months Breed - Sussex
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    I'm New, how do you do?

    WOW what a welcome! Thank you everyone so much!
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    Two soft shell egg's Yolk and White Separately

    So I contacted my local vet Small country town and said if she got anyone asking about rehoming any aged hens to let me know! women had brought them for her children as chicks in September and couldn't look after them ( i am from the UK and we have bird flu restrictions and she was keeping all 4...
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    Two soft shell egg's Yolk and White Separately

    Hi I'm pretty new to the chicken keeping stuff, I recently rescued 4 POL hens to add to my flock of 6. They had no illnesses but were all very dirty, lots of missing feathers and a few wounds. Integration went well and only a little bit of squabbling mainly between the newcomers amongst...
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    I'm New, how do you do?

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I got 6 rescues in October and another 4 start january (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 10 (3) What breeds do you have? Bluebell, brahma, sussex, 2 bovans, black copper moran, 2 speckledy hens, a white leghorn and a...
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