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  1. Nathaniel Walton

    Welsummer chick gender

    Hi just wanting a few opinions, had my buff Orpington hatch 4 random eggs and there is a pure welsummee chick (pictured) I think it's a hen but could I please have some expert opinions it's the one top left
  2. Nathaniel Walton

    Chick hatched 3 days later

    I had a broody hen sat on eggs, but randomly laid an egg 3 days after I sat her on 5 fresh eggs. 3 hatched 4 days ago, and I put the egg which was 3 days younger in my incubator and has just hatched this morning, how do you suggest I add it to the 3 chicks with the broody hen?
  3. Nathaniel Walton

    So many broody hen!!!

    Up until recently I have had hardly any broody hens, and when they do go broody snap out of it pretty quick. However in the last 2 months in my flock of 30 there about 5 broody hens, and when i set them on eggs they get upset and usually leave them or behave oddly like pooping on the eggs and...
  4. Nathaniel Walton

    adding other chicks to a broody hen

    Yet another post, I have 5 chicks due to hatch in a few days under a Copper Black hen and am wondering if it would be okay for me to add a few more chicks that i may buy 1-2 days old under then hen when the eggs hatch? Any advice appreciated, TIA
  5. Nathaniel Walton

    eggs at different stages

    So i hatched 21/24 eggs in an incubator last year with 4/4 from under a hen, this year there are 5 eggs under a hen that has been broody for a long time and i think they are around day 17-18 of hatching, but one of them is 3 days younger than the 4 others, all fertile and growing. Is it okay for...
  6. Nathaniel Walton

    Terrible rat problem

    Up until recently whenever i have had rats i have managed to eradicate them by any means necessary, traps, gun, poison etc as i hate them with all my heart. but recently we had severe snow for around a week and with nothing else to eat the rats seem to have found the hutch with my flock of 27...
  7. Nathaniel Walton

    9 month old aggressive cockeral.

    Hi all, about 8-9 months ago I hatched my first chicks (although i have been keeping hens for around 8 years), 21/24 hatches and 19 are still alive and well, however I have an Exchequer Leghorn cockerel which is extremely aggressive towards my parents and my siblings. It has no problems with me...
  8. Nathaniel Walton

    My silkies are 4 and a half moths old and they have me confused about gender!

    Hi, about 4 and a half months ago I hatched about 26 eggs, 3 of which were silkies. Up until recently, i have assumed that 2 of them (The brown and White one in pictures) were cockerels and 1 of them (The grey/black one) was a hen. However now they have me utterly confused as to what gender the...
  9. Nathaniel Walton

    Strawberries!!!

    Just popping on to let any chick owners with young chicks that today i fed my 26 week old chicks with strawberries and they absolutely went nuts for them!!! They really enjoyed fighting over the slices and some of them even shared with their brothers/sisters!
  10. Nathaniel Walton

    Found this chick on road, gender?

    Hi all, was just out for a walk a couple of hours ago and found this Lovely little (Presumably Wellsummer) chick all by her own on the side of the road, tweeting loudly. Luckily though, i have 26 week old chicks at home and this one has settled right in! She/he is the same colour as my current...
  11. Nathaniel Walton

    Should I be worried??

    I put my eggs in the incubator (old still air brinsea hatchmaker) 3 weeks ago today at about 12-PM.. Today is day 21 and we are 2 hours in and no pips as of yet. Temp 37.5----38.5 Degrees C and humidity was 74% yesterday morning, will have probs gone down to 70%is but don't want to open...
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