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Saturday was hatching day. I went out to check how my broody hen was doing, as I was sure I'd heard the sound of a chick out it's shell a couple of hours before. I couldn't resist temptation and lifted her slightly to try to see the chick. I noticed blood on the eggs and then the poor baby, not...

One of our chickens hid out last night. When I found her in the morning I discovered that her bottom end was in a stinky way, and her crop is very spongy and swollen. She was also standing by a beige puddle of liquid. Has anyone experienced these symptoms together? Did your hen pull through? I...

Dear all, The Czech Republic is a little bit like the wild west - products from China sold at Farmers' markets, watered down honey sold by the roadside, medicines sold here which cannot be advertised in other countries. It's very much seen as the responsibility of the customer not to get...

We have a La Fleche hen - our first to hatch from an incubator. She's beautiful, and because she was an only chick, I kept her with me far more than I should have - so she was very definitely a house chicken until at 2 months old she became the foster mum to 8 more incubator babies. Anyway, so...

What should we do? Until this morning we had 14 eggs incubating under a broody hen. She is in a dog cage in the hen house so nobody else can get in. This morning I checked her eggs while she went out to feed and found 13 eggs and one broken shell - with blood veins clearly on the surface. No...

Our broody hen is sitting on a clutch of eggs which are due to hatch this weekend. This morning we discovered red mites in the nesting box where she and the eggs are sitting. We're afraid to move her incase she goes off being broody but are worried about the effect the mites may have on the hen...

We've got one broody hen sitting on a clutch of fertilised eggs. She's in a nesting box in the coop with the other chickens at the moment. We want to put her in a cage in the coop before the babies hatch so they don't get pecked or trodden on. When shall we do it? We don't want to stress her out...

We have one broody hen sitting on a big clutch of fertilised eggs in one of the nesting boxes. In another nesting box we put all the polystyrene eggs (which we were using to show the hens where to lay). Today we found the polystyrene eggs pecked to peices. I'm worried that whoever pecked the...

One of my hens has been spending a lot of time in the nesting box. She's been in there for 2 days now, i've taken her out a couple of times as i thought she might be broody. I just picked her up to check if she could be egg bound and noticed her breastbone is red and lacking in feathers. She...

One of our hens has been sitting in the nesting box for the last 36 hours but doesn't seem to be laying. She's squawkng a bit but nothing distressing. They've all been having trouble laying recently, stressed out by some new arrivals i think. Yesterday we got our first egg in a week so i think...

Our youngest chick was found this morning looking very sick. She's about 4 weeks old. She can't stand up on her own anymore and feels cold. I've put her under the brooder to get warm but i don't know what i can do. She's not opening her eyes much either and her legs seem wobbly. I've tried...

My 5 adult chickens have stopped laying. We've had two eggs in 4 days which both had wrinkled shells. We recently introduced a silkie cockrel, 8 chicks and one teenage chicken to the flock. The chicks have been in an ark sharing a garden with the adults so they all know eachother but the silkie...