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I've just had this problem. Entirely my fault, sometimes i cook up older eggs for the chickens and mix it in with their treats, it was only when i got back to the kitchen that i noticed the stench, i must have had a bucket on my head when i fried them, anyway i msut have fed them a bad egg. I...

Hi I've got this going on with a hen too, as yours she is the friendliest and, ahh a nice hen. She's been egg bound before but seems to get it sorted over night, this has been going on a couple of days now and i see bits of broken egg coming out but she seems in so much pain. She struggled to...

I am going through a similar dilemma, my Cochin has hatched 3 black chicks, I dunno what breed they are because I asked the supplier for a mix and I'm not that experienced and forgot what I got. She is being a great Mum and I really don't want to take them away from her but I see many dangers. I...

She was fine in the end,the other two were more uncomfortable than she, even though she is more feathery. I wonder if when they are brooding they shut down a bit and don't get affected as much? The fan and water kept the tin coop cool quite well..only 6 days to go before her eggs are due to...

I am back with heat worries, my hatched chickens have grown up : and whilst I have ashamedly given the noisy rooster away, the Cochin hen is broody and I have given her 8 eggs to hatch but now it is 40 degrees! I give all the care I can with water and a fan, but will she manage? She's in a...

Hi there, they made it, but were not comfortable at all through the hottest part of the day, panting with wings open. I pretty well much did what you plan, I got a big tupperware box for drinking from and put a frozen bottle of water in it, then hosed everything down a few times in the day. I...

Good advice, comforting to read your views! I am lucky I think, or they are, instead of a hazelnut I have a walnut tree that drapes over them, and then their pen roof is shade cloth. Spraying it all does create a micro climate. It's the end of day 1 of 4 days of +40 degree heat and they are...

I have this dilemma right now, we have four days of 40-43 degree here, that's 100-110 odd. I've got heaps of water, and there is shade, they are panting. They are two month old cochins and look a little too fluffy for their own good in this heat. I think I will leave a hose running in their...

Well It looks like it is just the 2 outta 12, I candled them last night on day 24 and I can see most reached the early stages of development, there are two that are solid black and feel heavier under the light and I quickly put them back and will give it another couple of days. Is it wrong to...

Thanks for the advice and the welcome, I can see how involved a person can get, the other eggs aren't doing much but I can see a few peep or pip marks on the shells so they must be doing something, but it has been 24hours since the first two hatched, talk about fretting! I know I must leave...

I'm a noob as they say and 22 days ago I bought twelve cochin eggs and put them in an incubator. As it's been 22 days I was despondent that there was no action, but, they're here! Two anyway, chirping away in a way that makes me want to respond? From what I have read I will leave them alone...