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    mother hen

    Thanks for the advice flockwatcher. She seems a little better now and appears to be eating a little more. However still not enough she is hardly pooping and has now started to pull her feathers out. I am wondering if she has an infestation of some kind. I am reluctant to handle her at the moment...
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    How much should I be feeding 2 bantams?

    Agree with Den in Pen if you don't give treats till later in the day they will eat their pellets.
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    How much should I be feeding 2 bantams?

    They need pellets for egg laying. I only give my chicks a handful of corn in the late afternoon and only once a day. They also have greens regularly. A sack of corn lasts me 3/4 times as long as a sack of pellets. I think 2 handfuls a day for 2 small bantams is far too much and will only make...
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    mother hen

    I have a hen who has hatched 2 chicks now a week old. I am worried about her because she doesn't appear to be eating. She will call the chicks to eat food I scatter in the pen but does not take them to the feeder. I have put in her favourite treats in cups out of the chicks reach but she hasn't...
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    Ended Official BYC Caption Contest 07/15/2013 – Picture by debs_flock

    "Who's the daddy"
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    complete newbie to hatching

    No unfortunately. The eggs are still in the heated seedling box I don't hold out much hope really but we will see. I will have to get an incubator. I just wanted an extremely broody hen (4 times this year) to have her needs met. Its very stressful but she is as happy as larry with her new...
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    complete newbie to hatching

    It hasn't even pipped yet though I would be too worried that I might do more damage. However I cant get the temperature right so it will probably die also I have had to take the lid off to lower temperature and I know that all humidity will reduce so I don't know what else to do.
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    complete newbie to hatching

    I have candled them 2 seem non-viable the other 2 dark shadow but no sound at all.
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    complete newbie to hatching

    ok I will do thanks.
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    complete newbie to hatching

    Hello all. I need some advice. I have a broody who was sitting on 6 eggs. 2 hatched on day 19 today day 21 she has been out of the house all day with her new chicks and has left the other eggs. I do not have an incubator so have put them, because they were cold, in a heated seedling tray with...
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    Newbie

    Hi all i'm new too this game but have found this forum so helpful i thought i'd join.
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