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    8 deaths in 2 weeks :(

    In the last 2 weeks I have lost 8 chickens/hens and I don't know the reason why. I had 3 chicks in an outdoor brooder and lost 2 last week and one over night. Last week my 4 australorps were roaming aroud our 2 acre block, one was found dead on our block, one on the empty block next door and...
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    Second attempt at hatching

    Well with my first attempt in my home made incubator I got 4 out of 6 that hatched and have four month old Black Australorps running around the pen with their Cochin mother who adopted them!! This time I am hatching Silver Grey Dorking, Coronation Sussex and Barnevelder. I couldn't decide which...
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    Wedge Tailed Eagles

    Just looked out of my window and saw a bird swooping over the top of my chicken run, I thought that is unusual, a bird (we live in regional Western Australia) as birds are very scarce here; then thought it is big for a crow. Then realised that it was circling over my chickens, I ran out the...
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    It' hatched

    Well after heating cheeping from the egg last night I was surprised this morning to find there had been no pipping, after I came home from work it had hatched and was all dry and fluffy - not bad for a homemade incubator. Now just the question of the other 5 eggs, all were good when I candled...
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    I can hear cheeping

    I can hear cheeping coming from my incubator, there is no sign of pipping yet but how long will it be if they have started cheeping. We are on day 20 the suspense is killing me.
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    Egg didaster

    We went to lift my broody out of the nest this morning and my 2 year old came with me, trowel in hand, whilst I was putting the broody on the floor he dropped the trowel into the nest and one if the eggs cracked and blood came out, I didn't know what to do so have put some candle wax over the...
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    Eaten egg

    I had a dozen eggs shipped, difficult to get any here in a regional town in Australia, I put six under a broody Cochin and the rest in the incubator. There were six eggs under the hen this morning and only five tonight, there was evidence of broken egg in the nest, would she eat one if it was...
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    Broody Cochin

    One of my Cochins is broody, I am expecting some fertile eggs later this week and am torn between using the Cochin or the incubator. I did move the Cochin to her own nest box away from the other hens and gave her a couple of eggs to sit on, I moved her at night when I let her out in the morning...
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    Small egg confusion

    I am confused about the egg I found in the coop this morning. It is our very first egg but very small it is brown in colour but I am confused as to which chicken may have laid it. I have 2 Cochins around 18 months old, 2 White leghorns 5 months and 14 weeks and an ex-battery ISA brown. The ISA...
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    Bullying

    Well we have 2 cochins and a white leghorn that free range all day and go into the coop at night, today I got 2 ex battery brown ISA and I was expecting a bit of pecking but one of the Cochins is really going for the isas my 3 original birds are roosting in the top part of the coop as it is dark...
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