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    hatching eggs

    Thank you for your help! xAndrea
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    hatching eggs

    Thank you,but if I take the first chick away from the hen,would she take the chick back after a week ? I guess that I would need a special heating lamp to keep chick warm! I'm also working and couldn't look after the chick the whole day. I'm probably better to remove the first egg and not...
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    hatching eggs

    Hi, I have a first time broody bantam hen Lemon,she has sat on 3 eggs but 2 fell out the nest because the nest box is hanging up on wall and broody has been disturbed by other hens. I have moved the broody hen and put some more eggs under her. But,now I think it wasn't a good decision,because...
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    What feeder to use for bantam chicks?

    Hi, I'm so excited my black marans hen Goujon is second time broody again and sitting on 6 pekin bantam and 6 normal size cream legbar eggs and tomorrow is hatching day. Last year I used a shallow dish for the crumbs and a self made water feeder for the chicks. What sort of feeders are you...
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    Not sure if pullet or cockerel

    Hi there, I know I ask you already a couple of weeks ago about sexing my chicks. Some friends came and had a look at my chicks and they sad this one ( foto) could be a pullet. I just want to be sure, chick is 7 weeks old now.What do you think,what sex this one is? Thanks!
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    broody hen left 6 week old chicks to sleep with the old flock

    Hi,just an update.It was no need for moving the chicks to mum,they moved in to the big hen house the next night. The chicks are still sleeping cuddling up together on floor and not roosting.I don't know what age chicks starting to roost at night,any ideas?
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    broody hen left 6 week old chicks to sleep with the old flock

    Thank you all. I'm so glad that this morning I found mum and chicks reunited and all well. But tonight I would move them over if they won't go inside with mum.
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    broody hen left 6 week old chicks to sleep with the old flock

    Hi, I am a bit worried now,tonight my broody hen went in the big hen house and is not with the chicks. I have watched her trying to get her chicks into the big hen house to sleep with existing flock,but they went back in to the brooder house.Now its dark and it all went quiet.I don't know,what...
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    sexing chicks

    Good idea,with the cage for their food and also good hiding place for the chicks. Thank you.x
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    sexing chicks

    Thank's for your advice. I try to find a new owner for the cockerels,before that age. If I introduce the only pullet I have with my resisting flock would'nt she be bullied,or would mother hen always protect her?
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    sexing chicks

    So it seems quiet clear that I have only one pullet and two cocks.Thats not what I wanted to hear,but Thank you all.
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    sexing chicks

    Hi,I have 3 chicks now 5 weeks old. Two chicks hatched from olive green and one from a brown egg.I have been told that the father is a pure cream legbar and mum either a Marans, RIR,Easteregger,cream Legbar it was a mix of eggs and if they are all hens they would lay all green/ blue/olive eggs...
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    Introduction and question about sexing chicks

    Hi,Thank you so much. I think I have to wait and post some pics when the chicks are 8 weeks old. x
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    Introduction and question about sexing chicks

    Hi,from 6 eggs only 3 hatched.2 from olive green eggs and 1 was a darker brown egg.The woman where I bought the fertile eggs from said,that the 6 mixed eggs have all been fertilized by her pure cream Legbar cock and the hen could be from Cream Legbar,Marans,RIR and Easteregger. She also...
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    Introduction and question about sexing chicks

    Thank you for the nice Welcome.
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