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  1. MarionCraig

    Is it ok to separate hens from chicks

    Hi Everyone I need to sort out my chicks and hens. At the moment I have three hens and a cockerel in the main run. A hen with one chick in another small run, a hen with two chicks in another run and 1 chick on his own who has to move inside at night time. I would like to put all the chicks...
  2. MarionCraig

    HELP - hatch going wrong

    Hi My broody hen was due to hatch eggs on 48 hours ago. So far one chick has died in the shell - it was zipped. one chick hatched but mother just left it - I put it under mother and this morning dead. Could still hear some peeping faintly from other shells. Checked one shell to see if I...
  3. MarionCraig

    Do mother hens help the chick out of the egg?

    I have a bantam silver laced wyandotte who is hatching some eggs as I write. I have been observing closely. The first egg pipped yesterday but no chicks out yet. When I was watching (discreetly) just now she moved and I could see a pipped egg and could see the chick moving, mother then had a...
  4. MarionCraig

    hatching with a broody

    Hi everyone. This is my second attempt at getting a successful hatch with a broody hen. Can anyone tell me how long the chicks stay under the mother before they emerge? I can hear some cheeping. Mother hen is in with the main flock in a separate box- I will move her and chicks when the hatch...
  5. MarionCraig

    All chicks died

    Hi Everyone. I have three silver laced wyandotte bantams hens and two polish silver laced bantams plus "Arthur" my very very handsome silver laced wyandotte bantam cockerel. At the end of April one of the wyandotte hens went broody and I let her sit on eggs in the main coop. I then moved her...
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