OK, some background.
I hatched 4 eggs successfully in a standard, small incubator 5 weeks ago, and have kept them in an indoors pen with chick crumb and water, a brooder (removed last week) and sawdust bedding. They are bantams (breed unknown, but 3 look similar - black with white/grey...
Any ideas? I had trusted my family to look after my five bantams (various breeds) whilst I was working last week 8am-8pm. Mistake! Found one dead this morning, an empty food trough and dirty water. They had also not been cleaned out for about four weeks and I found lots of red mite. I have...
Hi,
Real chicken novice here - I've just had adult hens before, integrated new ones successfully etc etc. However, at the moment, I have just one hen. At my children's nursery they hatched out chicks in an incubator. Just one survived and the kids put us forward to have it!
I have been...