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ok on deaths door just lieing there but still alive :(

to be honest I am a really upset because I don't now what to do . I have had chickens for years and dabbled a few times incubating. This year how ever I had two broody hens and a million eggs with a good heart I put twenty or so in the incubator. The first ten or so hatched perfect but I have...

She is a specks lady the hatched egg is actually one off hers, they with a few others fell out of the nest so I quickly put them in the incubator a week ago. I am keeping the chick in the brooder and see if any more hatch in incubator if do all good or may be broodys eggs she is sat on will...

Hi all have two broody hens sitting on about twenty or more eggs between them. About a week ago I noticed a handful off eggs outside the nest so I grabbed them and out them in my incubator not expecting anything to happen. Well hey presto a little over a week later and we have one perfect...

Well my only hatched chick out of 42 eggs . And out of other eggs three were perfect chicks .. Gutted xx I am collecting two day old chicks

So here I am sat with one single chicken and the rest of the eggs still in the incubator doing zilch. This poor little chick has been in the nice warm brooder for 24 on his own. Feeling pretty gutted for it. So is it cruel for a little chick to be on its own because I am thinking if the eggs...

Hi all. I am now on day 22 , and so far three have pipped and only one lived. The rest are showing no signs a all . They were candled a week a go by a old timer of incubating chickens and his opinion was of the 42 in his opinion 37 were good. So what do I do as there are no signs , no pipping...

Well there is definately a problem with humidity , off the two pipping chicks yesterday one has died the other is Ali e only because of the advice on here. Just need to raise the humidity more but how

Hi all , had chickens for many years but incubating eggs for the first time is proving stressfull . The eggs are on day 21 and three are pipping , the rest are moving too. But the three that have made holes and chirping have not made much progress since last night . My husband suspects the...

have 20 chicken various breed but maily RIR . They have been a group for alomost two years with out any new additions and luckily not one has died. About six weeks ago noticed a few had swollen crops . I just moinotred it over a few days and the second week pretty much all the birds had...

I have a hen who has some of the symptoms your describing . For weeks now after constant nursing i have expected her to dead each morning. She sounds chesty and recovers very well on a course of antibiotics in her water but it seems as soon as they are stoped she becoimes ill quickly. Bizzare...

Omg no , it's awful isn't it because they really grow on you. Xxx HHS c

I think I am feeling sorry for my self today. I have had my chickens for over a year with no problems at all and now I have three at once . Firstly I have two warrens with swollen crops . The whole flock had them but these two just stayed swollen . I treated with maggots and to be honest it...

Thank you for your advice it's appreciated I will feed her yoghurt when I get home xxx

I have checked my hen closely again today for any maggots and can't see any . But if its the case that may be it has some what do I do x

Hi Lynn , she is eating and drinking just not a lot. I am assuming by fly strike she may have been but which is possible I just haven't seen bite mark. I just cleaned are and put vet powder on . I am worried about the wheezing though. I can't smell any thing bad when I open her beak x

Oh no I am so sorry xx

I need some advice ASAP . Last few days I noticed one off my hens seemed lethargic and was looking like it was trying to sleep during the day . I didn't notice any thing else , now looking closer at her she seems thinner and a awful smell was coming from under one off her wings . There is no...

Haven't got a clue but googled it out off curiosity and it said it could be comb scab , it's where another chicken has pecked it leading to a fungus didn't seem to see a cure but hope all is well x

Had some thing similar not as severe though, new hen had some I jury's few days later all introduced again all ok. Some one said better to place new hens in pen at night x