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  1. 1906

    Mother hen look well after chicks, but does not eat

    My hen has hatched 2 healthy chicks 5 days ago. She is looking very well after them. She scratch for food for them but there is not really food because I am keeping her in a large dog crate in the run. The tray is covered with sand, so she can dust bath. She takes food from the baby feeder...
  2. 1906

    Fertile chicken eggs - uneven development

    My broody hen is sitting on 3 fertile eggs. I have candled it on day 10. Two were developing very well, but I was not sure about the third one, so left it under her. Today is day17 and I have candled it again. The same two are still on track, but number 3 looks like the development of an egg on...
  3. 1906

    Hen sitting on eggs, but did not pluck her breast feathers

    I have a Heritage Rhode Island Red hen who went broody, not for the first time, but it is the first time I have put fertile eggs under her (and my first time using a hen to hatch eggs). She is very committed, I have to take her off the nest every morning to go and eat, drink and relieving...
  4. 1906

    New to BYC

    Hi to all the likeminded people on BYC. I got interested in keeping chickens after I have learned how industrial chickens (both for meat and eggs) are kept. I couldn't get any chooks in my area (North Queensland, Australia), so I ordered fertile Heritage RIR eggs from a very reputable hatchery...
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