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    Hens laying their first egg!

    Hi guys. We're in a our first year of keeping chickens and I was wondering if there's anything I should be doing to help the girls lay. We have 1 black tail 3 goldline and 3 cream legbar girls. All around 19 23 weeks of age and there doesn't seem to be any sign of any egg laying activity. They...
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    Eye condition? Need help/advice

    So we've noticed that one of our 3 week old hens has a 'pop eye' it's rather noticeable and it pretrudes from the head unlike all our chickens eyes which look pretty flush with the head. She seems fine although she does close it and shake her head now and then. I've attatched images the best I...
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    Can anyone help? SEXING. UPDATED IMAGES

    Hi all and thanks for taking the time to read this. We have bought a hybrid breed rhode island red x light sussex (Black tails) We've ended up with 5 chicks. After looking at the wings we can't decide if we have males or females although these should be auto sexing chicks the wings look the...
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    HELP!!!!!

    So.... What an experience this has been. We've getting 4 chicks out of the 9 that went to lockdown. Unfortunately only 1 hen. Theres a 5th chick that we have had a huge problem with. The little fells hatched with the yolk sac still exposed and attached to the umbilical cord. We covered it with...
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    NEED ADVICE - First Hatch Help!!!!

    So it started at 7.30pm on the 30/4. 9 eggs went into lockdown and all were pretty sure alive anf well after day 18 candling before lockdown. Since then we have seen only 2 wobble and last night about 9pm one pipped. We watched for a hour or so but not alot more happened other then chirping...
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    What has happened to this?

    So we went into lockdown with 9 eggs and now on day 20 we have noticed one egg that has a yellow ring round the shell as if it has been sitting on a cup. Does anyone know what it is and if it's still alive? I have attached a photo, it's hard to see but it's the one in the middle by itself on the...
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    Chicken Keeping Essentials!!!

    So me and the wife have taken the decision to keep chickens in our back yard. (currently in the incubator) In order to give them the best run at life I have converted our shed (which was full of rubbish anyway) into a brand new chicken coop. Added a run to the side of the shed and knocked a...
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    Attempt No 2

    So as some of you may have read our first attempt incubating eggs was a complete disaster. We put it down to a complete novice approach. However not to give up we are trying again. So now armed with the river systems egg tech 24 and 12 eggs set we are waiting for day 7 to come as its an...
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    Total failure - 1st Attempt!!

    So that was a total failure..... Day 10 and out of 6 eggs to candle, 2 we knew were fertile from the candling we did on day 7 and 4 we were unsure about. It turns out that we still had 4 unfertile however, unfortunately the other 2 had given up aswell. We arnt sure as to why this has happened...
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    New to incubation and hatching

    So me and my wife have decided to try our hand at keeping chickens. We have been railroaded by the children into getting 6 hatching eggs. We have bought 6 auto sexing hybrid brown eggs and there currently resting at room temp. Due to set tomorrow morning. As we know it that will be day 5...
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    New to Everything.

    Hi all, me and my wife are new to all of this chicken keeping business. We literally started this process last week and are going to roll with it the best we can. We've made a home made incubator and are currently resting 6 eggs that we've bought from ebay. Not sure what we'll be expecting from...
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