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  1. nivagh

    🍃August Hatch-a-Long🍃

    So our single successful hatch died yesterday. 😢 At nearly three weeks old, he / she just laid down and stopped. No idea why, our only theory is that it was too hot, though there was plenty of space for him to be away from or close to the heat lamp. My son is really upset; we;re trying to look...
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    🍃August Hatch-a-Long🍃

    I'm new to the site and to incubating so I hope you'll forgive this proud new chick daddy post.... The first bird from our first batch of incubated eggs hatched out this evening. Two eggs were pipped but one was immobile so I enlarged the hole of both. The immobile one seems certainly dead, but...
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    New member - Luxembourg

    So true...!
  4. nivagh

    Peeps in Europe!

    For those you based in Germany, if you're interested in getting ex-battery hens, the rescue organisation we used in the past is called Rettet das Huhn. They're active in many parts of DE but unfortunately no longer so much in Rheinland-Pfalz. They're very often looking to rehome hens (plus the...
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    Peeps in Europe!

    I don't know what breed they are precisely. They were just sold as "poules pondeuses" ie. egg laying hens. They resemble Bovans Goldline. They gauged things right with regards to being point of lay - they started laying after about ten days and we're getting between one and three eggs from the...
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    Peeps in Europe!

    Hi all... new member living in eastern Luxembourg, right on the DE border. Have been keeping hens for eggs for about a decade. We lost our entire previous flock of ten rescue hens to a very determined fox just over a year ago but just bought five hybrid layers from an agricultural store in...
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    New member - Luxembourg

    Hi all Short time lurker, new poster ;) We are from the UK originally but now live in eastern Luxembourg and have kept chickens on and off for about ten years now. We started with rescue hens from batteries but have occasionally had chickens hatched by my wife's father, or more recently some...
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