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  1. Mrs Chickens

    5th try with my black orpingtons and still no hatch - any idea?

    Hi This as the post says is my 5th try at hatching my orps this year. We have hatch last year and we were sucessful so can anyone give me some tips as to whats going wrong. I will try all detail Ok so the eggs are deffenatly fertile we eat them too so I check before we eat and can see the...
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    Whats going wrong?

    Hi All you lovely chicken lovers Im on my 3rd batch in the bater this year and nothings happening 18 eggs. The first two I let go all the way, 22days and opened them up at the end and nothing was fertil but I knew that from candling but just incase (just use a tourch). This last batch are day 7...
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    How to sexs a chick anyone really know

    Hi anyone really know how to sex young chick's?? I have Orbingtons and even at 6/8 weeks old they are not nessicerilly that easy to sexs from comb's and feathers. Combes on females can be quite red and large and they have lots of feathers. From a previous hatch I had 5 chicks 2 cockrells and...
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    Did I do it wroug?? Broody chicken question

    Hi all Ive never had a chicken go broody on me so much to my excitment one did. So I happily set her on a couple of orbington eggs and over the next 3 days added 1 /2 more a day - is this wroung??? Last hatch day past yesturday and only one chick has come out of 7 eggs, one she pushed out of...
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    Magpies stealing my eggs??!! HELP

    Hi Looking for some help, I have 3 coops with differant breed of cooks in over the last month we have had a drop in our eggs and wet patch's in the chickens coops. I suspected that the chickens were eating their own eggs so went and got some dummy eggs two days later they had dissappeared...
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    Bubbling eye, watery poo what to do?

    Hi can any helpful soul help me out, my black orpington hen has a bubbly right eye. It clear stuff and her eye does not look sore, I notice last week that she's sneezing and the other day she did a poo by me and I can only say it was watery, hardly anything too it really. She laid an egg...
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    How to raise cockrells to eat? And how to hummanly kill - tell me all

    Hi all Wondered if anyone has information on how to raise cockrell for eating? Currently have 3 cockrells which are free ranging with my flock but will be looking to remove them in the spring as they will be approx 20/ 25 wks old and will have searved there perpose of helping keep the coop warm...
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    How to raise cockrells to eat? And how to hummanly kill - tell me all

    Hi I have hatched out several chick's and they are now getting to the age that I can pretty much tell whos a boy and whos a girl. I already have a cockrell so the male chickens need to go at some point (there are 3) I would like to use them to their best and hopfully eat them, if anyone can...
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    Orpington chicks 2 are black - 2 are grey/ silver???? Any ideas

    Hi Just had a relitivly sucsessfull hatch of Orpingtons their Mum & Dad are black. However I have two very light grey/ silver chicks just hatch the other two are black just like my last hatch?? Will they darken up or have I been sold a cross Mum & Dad and am gonna get something new and...
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    Can anyone tell me their experiances off hatching using egg boxes

    Hello I have a hatch due on the 16th of 7 Orpington eggs. Am I right that sometime people hatch their eggs in egg boxes and if so how? All the ins & out please? I have hatch before but wanted to give this a go as I have heared that it could be more sucessful? Many thanks
  11. Mrs Chickens

    PLEASE HELP am I egg bound

    Hi reported the other day a Orpington which since the day I got her had a real pooie bum. Today she all puffed up tail down looking really sad, I've brought her in and bathed her but which appears undernether to be swollen and V hard. She had a poo when I was cleaning her and was really...
  12. Mrs Chickens

    Pooie bottoms are they sick???

    Hi I have 3 Orpingtons the two hens exspecially one have pooie bottoms - the worst chicken wit a pooie bum poo is green and has green water fluid around it!!! They seem well in themselfs I have given some cider vinager in there water but it has not cleared. There are free range, fed the...
  13. Mrs Chickens

    Lonely chick - what to do?

    Hi Chicken lovers Hatch 1 Black Orpington 4 days ago just put it out under a heat lamp, unfortunatly no other eggs hatch. It won't shut up until I go to it, does it think I'm Mum/ chicken? Tried and still trying to get it a friend so it won't be lonely - I can get couple of day old chicks by...
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    Chick age 10wks ready to go out to the flock?

    Hi - hope I have posted this in the right section. I have a chick that is now 10wks since she was 6 wks she has been in a seperate pen in with my flock - when should I let her go it alone? I have a cockrell called Collin who is how do I put it lovin the miss chickens and I am sure he will be...
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    New chicken shall I get? experiance Dutch/ Japanese/ Rosecomb/ Sumatra

    Hi all chicken lovers - I have a friend who is going to an auction for me on Saturday and I want to start a new collection of bantams. Does anyone have experiance of the following breeds and tell me anything about each So I like Dutch, Japanese, Rosecombe and the big one Sumatra (who I think...
  16. Mrs Chickens

    Do I do the deed it leave it be - or can you help

    Hi Hatch 6 chick's on Mon/ Tues had to kill one as it was not formed problery - it was a first time for me. I now have 5 one of whom can not stand up proberly - it was the last born on Tuesday late. It is walking on it knee's which are sore and kinda resting on it bum. It is still in the...
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    Do I do the deed or leave it be??

    Hi all you chciken lovers Asking for more advice just hatch 6 eggs ( yeah!!) one I had to kill ( boo) as was not formed properly. So now have 5. One is not walking proberly has been hatch for approx 6 hours all fluffed up but is walking on the joint of its legs - will it right itself or do I...
  18. Mrs Chickens

    Madam just died in my arms

    So sad Madam one of my chickens just died in my arms - Im having a little cry & will miss her tomorrow when I open the coop. She was my only White Sussexs and a lovely looking chicken with lovely big white eggs. She was always escaping and going off with Dutchess my Black Copper Maran for a...
  19. Mrs Chickens

    Madam is really ill - PLEASE HELP

    Hi My chicken Madam is real ill she is at this moment sat on my lap after allowing me to force water down her mixed with some suger & poulty drink. She started lookinh off about 3 days ago when she let me stoke her which my chickens don't do!!! I though she may be broody as she stayed in the...
  20. Mrs Chickens

    Can anyone help me with my ill chicken Madam

    Hey hope someone can help one of my chickens "Madam" has become ill but I am unsure what is wrong or how to treat her. Two days ago she got really friendly and was letting me stroke her (this may be unrealated) but normally my chickens don't like being haddled Yesturday she stayed in the coop...
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