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    Urgent Help Please, Bleeding Chick in Egg

    I just went out to check on my chicken's eggs under my broody and found one chick finaly hatching but may have been stepped on or hurt by the mother as there was a fair bit of blood. I'd been incubating eggs also so I've placed it in the incubator. I can't see any of it's features appart from a...
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    Gunk Covered Chick HELP!

    This was the 3rd day one of my eggs had been trying to hatched, she had made quite a bit of progress but she had started to dry and the egg was stuck to her. So I rolled up my sleeves and went in to help the poor thing, after I managed to peel away most of the membrain she was having a hard...
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    How Long Can it Take for a Chick to Fully Emerge?

    The first egg that started hatching is now looking like it might be the last, it started on day 21 it's now the morning of day 23 it's made little progress, my incubator doesn't have a humidity read out but I've done what it says to do in the instruction booklet. Already two chicks have fully...
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    Hen Picking on Broody

    My favourite hen called 'Boots' I've jut discovered has been really naughty as I found today she was almost sitting on my poor bantam broody trying to lay an egg! I promptly removed her and the moment I placed her back down she laid an egg where she stood! She must have been there for a while...
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    Chick Coming out the Wong Way?

    Hi everyone, Ok first my first ever chick in an incubator is starting to hatch but I'm worried about it, (Naturally) as I don't know what should happen as normally I don't get to see what's going on apart from an angry mother hen's beak coming towards me. The chick has made it's first little...
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    Air Sack in Wrong Place?

    Hi, I've just candled an egg at roughly 5 days and the air sack looks like it's stuck to the side of the egg rather than the bottom/top, would this affect how the chick hatches? I'm quite new to candling eggsbut when I move it around I can see a dark mass always floating to the top, is that...
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    What Breeds Are We?

    Gerald my male bearded cock. and Ammy my black and white hen. Click on image to make bigger. Sorry about the bad photos.
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    Hen Ran Away, Will she do it again?

    My lovely Coco ran away, how you ask? Our chickens are not kept in a pen, they roam the garden and our garden is quite large so they don't go too far from food. But Coco ran away. She later came back today, about 3 days later, all wet from the rain last night and screeming at the cocks. She...
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    Unknown Attacker, Please Help Identify!

    Last night I locked my chickens up and saw that one was missing, our chickens roam round the garden and don't wander onto the road etc. There was nothing I could do about it so I locked them up anyway. The next morning feathers where found a short distance from the hut but the hen was walking...
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