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    3 Weeks old chick with head missing, What could have done this?

    Thanks for showing your interest, The fences are fine and I looked into some more Threads and I'm starting to think it was crows :/ Poor little thing. I have put a cover over there enclosure now so hopefully there shouldn't be any more. Thanks again (:
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    3 Weeks old chick with head missing, What could have done this?

    I went outside to collect the eggs when I found one of the 3 week old chicks laying on the ground, its head was no where to be seen and had been killed recently as it was still warm and I had only just been out there and everything was fine. Whatever it was, only went for this one chick and...
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    Chick chirping but no external pip, can it cause suffocation??

    Thank you for your help! we had 2 very hard shelled eggs, I put a slight hole in one and it pretty much kicked boxed its way out not long after, whether the hole had something to do with it I don't know but he wasn't staying in that egg any longer . The next morning the other egg had been...
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    Chicken possibly broody but wont stay on the nest

    OK thanks for your information!! we don't really want her to go broody but if she wants then that's fine except the eggs where getting aren't exactly hatching standard yet as most of our herd are young pullets! From reading your replies she is probably just figuring out the laying system as she...
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    Chicken possibly broody but wont stay on the nest

    We have a young pullet that is 7 months old, she acts broody and will stay on the nest for a whole day at times and isn't very impressed if you try to take her eggs but she always gets off the nest like she gets bored! She's been acting strange for about 2 weeks, making a nest and I don't know...
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    Chick chirping but no external pip, can it cause suffocation??

    wow this egg doesn't want to be broken! the needle is having a very hard time getting through it :/
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    Chick chirping but no external pip, can it cause suffocation??

    another chick has hatched 10 hours after the first one, there are 3 more externally pipped ones now but we have an egg from another breed of chicken and the shell is very tough, this chicken has been there now for about 14 hours, there is no sign of a crack but you can hear him chirping and see...
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    Chick chirping but no external pip, can it cause suffocation??

    All is good, he externally pipped 13 hours after I first noticed the internal pip! he is now zipping and almost out!! he is making good progress with the zipping, I checked him before dinner and he had just a hole about centimetre long and and came back half an hour later to find he has half the...
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    Chick chirping but no external pip, can it cause suffocation??

    Ok thanks a lot, I really want to leave it to mother nature and hope for the best but when I read that they can suffocate if not externally pipped in a few hours I panicked a bit because all our other hatches seemed to go from internal pip to hatch within an hour :] thanks again
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    Chick chirping but no external pip, can it cause suffocation??

    It is day 20 for my chickens and one has internally pipped at the very end of day 19, it is the only one I believe to have pipped and has been chirping for about 3-4 hours, there is no sign of a crack or external pip and I heard if they don't externally pip or make a hole in a few hours they...
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    Chick with swollen purple/blue tummy??? please help

    Chook unfortunately passed away but he put up a good fight, I think he was just too weak to begin with :[ He lasted 4 more days then expected and he was even walking around, eyes wide open and very energetic on the second day but the next morning it all turned around, he stayed alive for 2 more...
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    CHICK NOT EATING PLEASE HELP

    My 3 day old chick isn't eating or drinking, Yesterday he was fine chirping and walking around but this morning i found him with his eyes closed and can barely lift his head and only does so when i dip the tip of his beak shallow water, he wont eat as he wont open his eyes and is very weak, I...
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    Weak chick not eating or drinking *PLEASE HELP*

    the chick is 2 days old, i know they usually don't start to eat or drink for awhile after they hatch but he was fine yesterday and now he cant open his eyes, walk and he cant chirp, His poop is clear, sticky, with green bits looking like mashed grass.. he definitely hasn't eaten grass, he has...
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    Lonely Chick??

    Thanks for the advice guys!! we put in a stuffed toy but it didn't quite work so we have a small blanket/tea towel that he loves to snuggle up in :] we found someone who had some day old chicks and were picking them up tomorrow because our little chick is very lonely and its just cruel if we...
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    Weak Chick need help please

    My recently hatched chick is weak and has lost a bit of blood if anybody could tell me if i could get him to drink something that could perhaps help him (i heard water with a bit of sugar) but i don't know how much to give him and if it will even help.. I dont believe i could currently get him...
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