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    Noisy chickens!!

    We have had chickens for 15 years but these particular hens for 2 years and we hatched them ourselves so they are very much used to their environment!
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    Noisy chickens!!

    Thank you for all your help! We may have to try locking them away and I will start checking for eggs early in the morning- I normally leave it until lunchtime when they have normally finished laying! We are in the south of England so summer and warm weather (for now!!) has arrived meaning the...
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    Noisy chickens!!

    We have a flock of 8 hens who happily live in our back garden. They have an Eglu fox proof coop meaning in the summer they don’t need to be shut in their coop at night. Over the last few weeks one chicken in particular, (the second in the pecking order) has been making an extremely loud...
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    Incubating chicks- day 22!

    Thank you, that’s really helpful! I will purchase a gauge and candle them!
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    Incubating chicks- day 22!

    Yes they were posted, we left them for 24 hours prior to incubation for them to settle. They were all fertile and developed correctly for day 17. The temp was 37.7 and humidity is measured by the water pools so no exact levels.
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    Incubating chicks- day 22!

    Hello, We have incubated 5 eggs- all when candled were fertile. We have followed all the incubating rules to a “text book” fashion and all were very much alive and moving around in the egg on the last candling day, 17. We are now on day 22 and only one chick has hatched, the other 4 are making...
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