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    What breed are my hens??

    I have 2 hens, that i hatched last year, i got so many last year, that i hatched, that a fox got, and now i only hav three left, but i am still unsure on what breed theses are, can anybody help? My white hen, with a few black spots, not sure? Lays green eggs? My black hen with reddy lrangy...
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    Shipped eggs, should I get them

    I know people talk about how bad shipped eggs are to hatch, but I would like to get some silkies, and anybody who sell them doesn't live near me, the closest if found is on eBay!! Should I get them ?? Any suggestions would be nice :)
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    What incubator should I get? HELP!!

    my first incubator, was a styrofoam incubator, and out of 15 I got 2, I had read every thread on here about hatching, and it didn't help!! Styrofoam incubators are awful, afterward I just threw it in the bin, the next one I had was a 60 egg manual incubator, I got for £50, and it was ok, I used...
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    Northern Ireland birds!

    Hi I'm from Northern Ireland I have 3 chickens, I had 20 hens,4 roosters and 4 ducks, but a fox got them and my ducks. I am now hatching 5 duck eggs 14 chicken eggs 8 geese eggs, and I am getting more duck eggs tomorrow, anybody else from Northern ireland :)
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    Hatching soon what should I get???

    In about 2 or 3 weeks I am going to hatch 24 ducks, but I'm not sure what o should get, I would like to have a range maybe about 6 of 4 different kinds, but I don't really know any breed :( maybe some runner ducks, or calls ducks or something but I'm not sure, Any suggestions? :)
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    Hens not laying!! Help :(

    I have 13 isa browns, and they were laying great about 10 or 11 a day about 2 or 3 months ago and they went from 10 to 7 to 4 then to 1 or 2 everyday, I haven't done anything different and they just stopped laying, it's the middle of summer, and they are usually laying machines but they have...
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    Day 21 no movement

    Ok so its day 21 and there is 8 eggs that haven't hatch, they were all moving on day 18 but they haven't hatched, although two ducks hatched and 11 chicks hatched before day 21 does this mean the 8 wont hatch? They were all in the same incubator
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    Duckling hatching foot first ? HELP URGENT!

    This morning around 10 my duck got it's foot outside the hole and it hasn't made any progress since, it's is moving and creeping, and it now the feathers around it have dried out as it has been like this for so long, what do I do will it hatch, should I help by putting the foot back in, please help
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    Baby duckling bleeding! HELP!! please

    Ok so my duck was in the shell for two days and he hadn't really done anything and he look as if he was stuck so I lifted him out and he just slipped out fine, he didn't seem to get caught but then blood started coming from his belly, I don't think it had properly detached from it and it was...
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    Duck hatching day 24!!!!

    I went to turn my eggs one last time before lock down, and one of the duck is hatching I was doing a dry hatch, and it was around 27% humidity, and I just put more water in and it's going up, but what now, is it ok, will it hatch please help :D
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    Hens slowing way down in eggs!

    Before last week, I was getting around 10 or 11 eggs a day from 13 hens, but 2 went broody, so I was getting around 10 or 9 then, but in the last week it has suddenly dropped to about 5 a day, does anybody know why, because they are fine, I've good good feed, and there is always water, so I...
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    Hatching muscovy pekin & Rouen

    In a while I am going to hatch some Muscovey eggs along with some pekin and some Rouen, so, do I just put the Muscovy in first in (for 48 hours (they are shipped)) in an egg cartoon at around 30% humidity (dry hatch) and on day three take them out of the egg carton and start to turn them three...
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    Broody isa brown sitting on 8 eggs

    Turns out I have a broody, on monday I went out to collect the eggs in earlier about 6, and the hen was sitting on them, i lifted her to see how many there was I thought she was laying so I left her, I came back at 8 and she was still sitting on them, so I came at 9 and she was sitting on them...
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    May hatch along :)

    Put 48eggs in on the 30th of april, but only 28 fertile eggs growing and going to hatch, (hopefully) this is including 3 duck eggs, which are all set to hatch on the 20th of may, :D plus my hen has been sitting on 8 eggs for a day, which are also due to hatch on the 26th of may anybody hatching, :)?
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    United Kingdom wooo!

    I am from northern Ireland, and i have 1 white leghorn rooster, 13 isa brown chickens and In the incubator i have three duck eggs (day 11 today), and they are all moving :celebrate so excited now :D one is moving like crazy, and the other two are moving every now and again :D i candled a few of...
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    Day 7, too late to start a dry hatch ?

    Ok today i put my 45 hen eggs in with my 3 duck eggs which have been developing nicely i want them to hatch on the same day so i decided to put the duck eggs in a week earlier, so the humidity has been around 50- 60 which i read is ok for duck eggs, but when i put my hen eggs in, i couldn't...
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    Very small Membrane egg ?

    I went out to the coop and I looked in the nesting boxes, and one of my isa browns had laid this unbelievably small egg, and it is really soft and has no shell, like it laid the egg with only membrane, Her it is beside on of there normal eggs:
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    Hatching ducks and chicks started

    Hi all i have put in 3 duck eggs in my incubator at 6 pm tonight, and in 1 week I will be putting in 46 chicken eggs, all different breeds, i have 28 shipped eggs and 18 non shipped which i got from a friend, the shipped ones include a columbine hens, cream legbars, welsummers, leghorns...
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    Rooster can't move, PLEASE HELP!

    I received a rooster last Thursday, and he couldn't really walk he was sorta of falling to one side, and I put him in a second pen on his own, and he was walking fine again so I put him in the pen with the rest of the hens on Saturday night and he was fine, but when I went to let them out today...
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    Incubator arriving, hatch starting

    I have just got my 60 egg incubator, and I am putting in 3 duck eggs and then in a week I am going to put in 45 chicken eggs so the incubation has official started :D :celebrate all are welcome to join in :)
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