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    Peritonitis/infection/cancer??!!

    Thanks...Pearl died yesterday:(
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    Peritonitis/infection/cancer??!!

    Thankyou for your reply...what you have suggested would tie in with her history of previous illness. She has gone down hill considerably since my post yesterday and she can't keep any food or fluid down and no longer has the strength to stand up. Unfortunately with it being the weekend I...
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    Peritonitis/infection/cancer??!!

    Hello, please excuse the long post, I wanted to include as much info as possible...my 3-4yr old rescue large breed hen, Pearl, has been poorly for several days, her weight is currently ok. She has a history of sporadic laying of soft shelled eggs and suffered a prolapsed vent and subsequent...
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    Broody hen has abandoned fake eggs but still broody

    4 out of 6 hatched and we managed to watch the last one come out. All 4 happy and healthy and mum is fantastic. I have to say, around the 21 day due date me and my daughter were a bundle of nerves!! They're a week old now. We never candled the eggs, decided to just leave to mother nature...
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    Broody hen has abandoned fake eggs but still broody

    Good luck with yours too! I wish I had more eggs but didn't want to overload her for her first time and I don't have an incubator. Think i will be investing in one very soon though!
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    Broody hen has abandoned fake eggs but still broody

    Yes I did wonder whether she could perhaps tell they weren't real. I've only just bought them and they smell very rubbery!! I popped a couple of real eggs under her yesterday and she's sitting on them nicely, she's also much happier now I've moved her into a pen on her own. It's gone dark out...
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    Broody hen has abandoned fake eggs but still broody

    Thankyou for that. Will pop them under tonight just to be on the safe side.
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    Broody hen has abandoned fake eggs but still broody

    Thankyou ~ have relied heavily on this forum for info over the past few weeks and it's been a godsend and now really pleased I joined. It's very reassuring for beginners like myself. Broody hen update...went to feed her this morning and she's ultra broody now, puffing up and guarding the eggs...
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    Broody hen has abandoned fake eggs but still broody

    Have moved her now so will see how she is in the morning. Fingers crossed...! Thanks for your help, much appreciated..x
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    Broody hen has abandoned fake eggs but still broody

    Thankyou for the info. I don't think any of the others went in her nesting box as I was watching the hen house at the time but I suppose one of them could of snuck in, the little monkeys.. I have a 'broody coop' all ready and waiting, was planning on moving her tonight once it's dark with her...
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    Broody hen has abandoned fake eggs but still broody

    Hi all. My broody silkie has been sitting nicely on a clutch of 4 fake eggs for two days now whilst I'm waiting for the real hatching eggs to arrive in the post (due within 48 hrs). This morning she left those eggs and hasn't gone back to them, but is now sitting in another nesting box. She's...
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