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    My RIRs are nearly 30 weeks

    Yes layer mash for the last two months - I'm ever hopeful!
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    My RIRs are nearly 30 weeks

    Gosh I hope late developers are not also poor layers! My best producers are my hybrid brown shavers - about 360 eggs a year in the first year - declining in the second and almost all spent after two years. The purebreds seem to be not as quite as prolific but do lay for longer. Here's hoping!
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    My RIRs are nearly 30 weeks

    Still no eggs - they are beautiful big healthy birds who live a charmed life! Any ideas please?
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    Limited feeding times. A good idea?

    Quote: Here's the feeder at work!
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    Limited feeding times. A good idea?

    It takes a couple of weeks to train the chickens - you start with the lid fully open then gradually set it lower so the chickens get used to the movement caused by standing on the platform. They can still see the food at this point. Eventually you leave the lid closed and chickens activate it...
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    Limited feeding times. A good idea?

    The answer to those wild birds stealing the food is to use an automatic feeder activated by the chickens standing on the feeder platform.
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    Newly hatched chick keeps flipping over backwards

    Hi thanks - helpful replies. Yes the toes on one foot are curled at times but the leg isn't splayed. It just lies on its back once it has flipped - then occasionally turns over - lifts its head right back and flips again. It's 12 hours since it hatched so guess I'll see how it is in the morning .
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    Newly hatched chick keeps flipping over backwards

    Hi - please can anyone help? - chick hatched this morning at day 24 after the others two days ago - I found it quite cold and flat when the mother left the nest with the other chicks to feed. I brought it in - it has warmed up nicely under a lamp, has had water via a dropper and is cheaping...
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