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  1. mabaker

    Advice needed

    Hi thank you for the advice, she was sat in a bush with the eggs, we noticed the ducklings this morning when she got off to eat, and then she returned to the nest. When I got back from the school run, she was up and out with her four ducklings wandering about, I have put her in the duck house at...
  2. mabaker

    Advice needed

    Our duck has been sat on eggs, 14 in total and this morning appeared with four ducklings, and has appeared to have abandoned the nest. Shall I put her and her ducklings in a safe place, or is she likely to go back and sit on the remaining eggs?
  3. mabaker

    Chicks all dead

    Nope we are all organic fincas! I also thought of poisoning, but why havnt all the chicks been affected? one of the batch is perfect, 2 are looking ill....the other mums and chicks are fine......I am at a loss and dont want it to happen with any others
  4. mabaker

    Chicks all dead

    nope nothing, at first that is what we thought maybe a rat, or ferel cat, but nothing, they were just laid there :-(
  5. mabaker

    Chicks all dead

    they are free range chickens, The older ones run around the fruit orchards, the mums and chicks get moved to a separate pen once they are born as there is a furrow that runs through the orchard, and fear of drowning is too high. The new mum and her 12 chicks were put in the pen with another mum...
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    Chicks all dead

    Hi, the second batch we have had, the first lot were born 3 weeks ago and are fine, healthy and running around, I know I am a novice but I really dont know what I did wrong :-(
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    Chicks all dead

    I live in Spain, so its not too cold, and they were running around fine when I left :-(
  8. mabaker

    Chicks all dead

    We had 12 chicks born the other day, and they were all doing great. I fed them earlier with mum and went out, when I got back 8 were dead and 2 dont look too well at all. I am devastated......and have no idea why they died, any idea??????
  9. mabaker

    hi

    LOL I hope so, I had chickens as a kid and thought it was all so easy, 20 years on and I have chickens again, but it is all so stressful now!
  10. mabaker

    hi

    Hi I found this website, and I am hoping it will become my guide to everything I want to know!
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