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    Do my 8 day old chicks need something to perch on yet?

    How soon do I put a perch in the brooder? Can it wait till they go in their ark when they are around 10 weeks?
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    do chicks get constipated??

    Very new to this...my 4 day old mixed breed bantam chick has hard compacted poop stuck to her bum. I wiped it off with some warm water and a paper towel but it just came back again, and the other mixed breed chick (same batch) is now doing the same. All the others (French Marans) are fine, just...
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    My penny's worth

    Well my 2 day old French Maran chicks seem to be doing OK but what I thought would be a pleasant experience - hatching my own eggs for the first time - was really stressful and I made quite a few mistakes; I would do things a bit differently next time (if there is a next time). Only 3 of 8...
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    still attached to egg

    One of my newly hatched chicks is trailing his shell behind him. It still seems to be attached so I am relunctant to interfere. I put him in the brooder a few hours ago, hoping the heat from the lamp would try it up and it would fall off - but it is still there. The others are hitching a ride...
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    Urgh! Something gross just came out of my chick!

    I have a newly hatched chick - about 4 hours ago. It took an age to hatch - 40 hours to be precise and it got stuck, but got out in the end. Anyway, it just did a big green watery poo. This is our first ever hatch - is it meant to do that? I mean, I know they have to pass something but this was...
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    How long to break on through?

    Hi can anyone help me as my wife is starting to panic. We have 8 eggs (6 French Marans and 2 Manxies) in our home made forced air incubator, 2 of which have a small crack which appeared on day 21 but nothing else has happened for 12 hours. The crack is the same. My wife is tempted to help...
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    Hi

    Hi everyone. Found this site amazingly helpful so as first time chicken hatchers, with lots of questions, thought we should register. We are in the UK.
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