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    help needed re hatching eggs

    temp has been a fairly steady 37.5. even when I remove the top to add water it only drops for a minute and is then back up again. My main concern is that I have had to lift the lid off to add water so the humidity will have dropped now and again. As I said I didn't feel positive when I got...
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    help needed re hatching eggs

    Hi thanks for the advice nothing more has happened if I need to help it how do I go about it? Deb
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    help needed re hatching eggs

    I have had some Orpington chicken eggs in the incubator for 24 days now no sign of hatching and to be honest when I candled them I wasn't hopeful. However lasy night I thought I would give them a last look at before switching off and as I moved lid one egg cheeped at me. I quickly popped the lid...
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    Backyard chickens UK

    Hi there I live in Northern Ireland and love the site too, so many helpful people, I would have been lost for my first few weeks of chicken raising without this so Cheers wherever you live!!
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    Backyard chickens UK

    Hi Fairy new to BYC and just found a UK thread. I live in Northern Ireland and got my first chickens back in March this year. I have had Quails and Turkeys in the past. Having started with four POL, I then got some day old chicks and now have some hatching eggs in the incubator. my POL and...
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    Broody new chicken

    Hi all As you know I have been really grateful for all your advice and support. As a new first timer it has been invaluable!! However now I have my 4 point of lays very much laying ( had a few no shell eggs occasionally but basically getting 3/4 eggs a day from them and so much fun I have had...
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    advice again I'm afraid

    thanks
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    advice again I'm afraid

    thanks for advice everyone. I decided to let them play for a few hours yesterday when it was warm in the run. I went out to get them and they had all got up the steps and gone into the coop happily pecking at the food and jumping on and off the steps seemed happy so I put an electric hook up...
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    advice again I'm afraid

    Ok so thanks to all the support and advice my four 16 week old girls have been with me five weeks and are free ranging, coming back home to sleep and lay their eggs and follow us round all the time. Am happy with their progress and feel reasonably confident now. We had some bullying resulting in...
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    Day old Chicks advice please

    thanks again for that really useful link. I let the big girls out at 6am every morning and they only go back in to use the nest box and the eggs currently are always there warm by 1030. after than they don't bother to go in until 1945 ish and I usually lock them up about 2000 but obviously this...
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    Day old Chicks advice please

    Hi Sue Thanks for your advice you are always encouraging and have given me really useful practical advice ! I am figuring that I need another coop, I was advised that 16 square foot was big enough in the coop but it seems its not. The roost perch is 4foot long and I can easily put another few...
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    Day old Chicks advice please

    Hi my baby Barred Rock x Rhode Island chicks are now 9days old and thanks to all the advice doing really well. jumping stretching and generally trying to see who can jump onto the highest point in the brooder. The brooder is a deep indoor rabbit cage 4 foot long x 2 foot wide and 2 foot high I...
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    Day old Chicks advice please

    Hi thanks to all who have replied for your wisdom and experience thanks to it we have survived the first night and most of the second day. The chicks are all eating well and using the drinker. They sleep under the brooder a fair bit and run out when we go into the room. Early days but I am...
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    Day old Chicks advice please

    Hi I think a few of them are getting the idea there's water there and I have made sure they have all had a bit off my finger end from tapping just to be sure, cant believe how chirpy they are when awake thanks
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    Day old Chicks advice please

    thanks I bought a load of the same led candle lights cheap at Christmas I will dig the out now!
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