Thankyou so much but I have just cheeked on the egg and the chick had zipped the current temperature in my area is 9-11 degrees Celsius in the day and 0 at night so the eggs have been in a storm for the last 4 days and it had made the hatch 2 days late and slow hatching just the on chick hoping...
hello so I have 1 chick that piped 36 hours ago now and I just went to cheek on it and it’s cheeping very loudly but no external pip what should I do I don’t like doing assisted hatching
Hello the timing was accidental my plan was to put the other eggs under my other broody hen so they will all hatch on time and the Mixed corn is wheat and corn and the grit is on the ground
hello :frow I have recently had 2 broody hens with 7 eggs each and to day was ment to be day 19 but I forgot that 3 of the eggs were 2 days older and 2 of them have internally piped and today is very stormy I was going to buy chick crumb in 2 days but what do I feed the chicks if they hatch...
Thankyou so much for replying I tried moving them but they refused to be moved luckily the lay out of my house means there’s 3 nesting boxes and a 2 meter by 1 meter floor and the girls have decided to keep their clutches in the corner so my other 3 hens and 1 cockerel havnt botherd them as much...
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I have never hatched chicks under a hen before and have always used incubators
About 8 months ago I had 2 hens go broody and they both sat on a clutch of about 10-12 but they both stopped sitting after a week because my cockerel would go in the house kick them off there eggs.
But 3 days...
this morning I looked in the coop to find my 1 year old polish hen spread out on the floor taking slow light breaths with her eyes shut her head was slightly responsive and 10 mins later she died I looked at her skin and it was coverd in mites could this be what killed her and is my flock in...