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    Ones of my baby chicks with broody mum died - 1 week old

    Neither of us will really know for sure but I've made my peace with it in that I really don't think I could have done anything and I doubt you could, either. I certainly played around with thoughts for days after...But, chicks die unfortunately just like adults hens, often with no obvious...
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    Ones of my baby chicks with broody mum died - 1 week old

    I'm so sorry to hear this. I don't know the answer but I had a very similar thing happen, one of my two chicks just died at about ten days old. I was told it was very unlikely the mother hen would have trampled on her. We also have an Omlet Eglu (and Cube for the others) and have successfully...
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    What's the temperature where you are???

    95F at 3pm yesterday and so humid...
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    So...we tried to introduce Ma hen and her chick back into the flock

    I'd have liked not to have separated her but with our set up at the moment we had to. Next time perhaps we will do things differently! And what if there is blood??
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    So...we tried to introduce Ma hen and her chick back into the flock

    Our set up is that we have four chickens who were all raised from one day olds together. Betty, our maran, went broody back in late June so we put some eggs under her and now she has a 3.5 week old chick called Yoyo. Betty and Yoyo are in their separate run next to the main WIR where they can...
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    We originally thought this was a hen but now we are not so sure

    Roos x 2. Handsome.
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    All Black Flock

    I know, sorry for the ending. It IS sad. Had I known of course...But she had a great life and was much loved. I think it's great yours get calmed by your singing. Mine respond to my call. It's so nice!
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    All Black Flock

    Wow they are gorgeous. WE had an awesome black orpington which the farmer didn't want to sell to us (she wasn't quite right bless her but my daughter really wanted her). We bought her and gave her a really good home for some years. She never laid, never scratched but was so stately and...
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    One of our chicks died

    I guess the answer to this is that it's one of those things but...we hatched two live chicks under a broody on 13th July. They were doing so well, no sign of problems at all but this morning only one came out of the coop and when we went to have a look, Sunny was dead in the nest. Sunny looked...
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    What's a more natural feed? aka: what did my grandparents feed their chickens?

    Thanks for sharing that. It sounds very much like my grandparents'. I just wish I'd paid more attention!!
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    Bunch of candling development pics!

    Ooh congrats!!
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    Bunch of candling development pics!

    I really appreciate you taking the time to answer, thank you!
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    Is Scarlett a she or he?

    He’s a lovely roo. Our local farmer takes ours. Sometimes she can sell them on, sometimes she can’t.
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    What's a more natural feed? aka: what did my grandparents feed their chickens?

    We feed our hens on organic layers' pellets. TBH I've no real idea what's in them. What's a more natural feed? What do you feed your laying hens? What would my grandparents have fed their chickens (they were farmers and kept them but unfortunately not here to ask). A
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    Bunch of candling development pics!

    Great thank you. Two more Qs (sorry). What is a saddled air cell and what is a shipped egg? (One which whose 'ship has sailed?')
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