Hi everyone, i have 2 broody pekin hens sitting on 10 eggs in total, they were due to hatch yesterday I candeled the eggs the other day and everything was in order developing nicely and I am starting to get worried, I'm not 100% on the start date but I think they should be hatching by now, its...
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I have a young pekin bantam broody hen sitting in the coop with a clutch of about 5 fertile eggs in the nesting box, she is sharing the house with 3 other girls and 2 cockerals (1 who is being rehomed in 2 weeks) I have noticed that in the evenings one of the cockerals tends to...
Hi everyone, this is my first ever time having a broody hen and am looking for some tips and advice. I would like some chicks from her!
At the moment she is in the nesting box sitting on her eggs (3) it is quite a small space with no easy access to food or water, I have just got back from...
hi everyone, I have 2 roosters who will not stop fighting- i think they are pretty much equal ability so there never seems to be a winner! what should I do?
Hi everyone, I have owned chickens for around 4 years now and all my chickens are completely free range during the day and shut in at night. Over the years I have lost a fair few flocks to fox’s (during the day!) . I’m just wandering if anyone has had any successful tactics to keeping foxes away...
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My first time layer pekin chicken is laying very weirdly- for the first few days she layed every other day then stopped for a few days and it has now been a week since she last layed and she is now just sitting in her laying spot and not laying at all, please can you give me some advice...
Hiya, so I have a broody chicken and she is very fussy when it comes to laying and if I disturb her ‘laying spot’ then she will find somewhere else. She is broody atm and I want to move her from her hutch because she I living with 3 boys (breeding plan gone wrong) and there are obvious signs of...
Hiya, I have a fairly new layer (3 months??) and I have noticed that after the past few days she has been sitting in the nesting box in the morning and evenings, with no egg being laid, but walking around midday just fine. What could the reason for this be?
Hi I have a rooster who is a year old he lives with his brother and girls. I checked on him this morning and noticed he would not put his foot on the ground and had to hop everywhere. When I examined him I noticed that his spur had turned completely black. I don’t know what to do he is my...
My chick sits really weirdly and try’s to walk like this. He used to be ok until he fell Ill and he now sits and walks like this instead of normally like he used to
hi, yesterday morning we found one of our chicks almost passed out because his box was way too hot. it looked like he was dying of dehydration. My husband tried to pour water down his throat because he was too weak to drink . he is quite weak and whenever i give him water i can hear a crackling...
Hi I have a 2 day old chick who has been suffering from dehydration we have got some water down him with a sprinkle of dehydration powder and he keeps gagging and trying to be sick I really need some help please reply! I have just lost one to the same cause and I don’t want to loose this one.
I have had a chick pipped for over 24 hours with a bit of progress the hole has almost tripled in size from when I last saw it I am wondering when I should assist and if so how I should do it
I am new to hatching. I am using a Janeol-10 incubator for hatching my bantam eggs. I have heard that they hatch on day 19-20 it is day 20 and nothing has happened I am not sure what humidity should be on or what temp. At the moment they are on 38 degrees Celsius with humidity around 70 percent...