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For worming?.. I have always wormed my flock with piperazine?

The rest seem fine at the moment but I'll have a closer look at them tomorrow just in case. The whole flock is up to date with worming at the moment. After he died green mucous came out of his nose and around his eyes- I've never seen that before.. Maybe a respiratory infection? His eyes were...

Thanks for your reply, It's late at night here at the moment, so no vets til tomorrow. We just lost the poor guy :( At least he's not in pain anymore. Thanks for your advice x

Can anyone offer some advice please? I have a 6 month old silkie cockeral who has always been of pretty good health up until this past week or so. He started sleeping seperate from the other chickens at night, that was probably the first sign of something being amiss, This week he's been less...

Ok, thanks! I've bought the eggs anyway but I might just sell the chickens from the hatch if need be, I'm thinking about putting a second coop in for breeding sometime next year so we will see. I swapped out the fake eggs from under my broody today to put the new fertile ones under her and...

I have a question if anyone here might know the answer?, I have 2 gold laced wyandotte hens and 1 gold laced wyandotte rooster (who seems to be infertile). I also have five 8week old baby chickens that I purchased as day olds(3 hens and 2 roosters)- they are blue laced gold wyandottes. Now my...

Ok, so my incubator arrived here last Saturday morning and I've set 7 of my eggs in it to try and get to the bottom of this, We are on day 5 today, I candled them all this morning but I can't really see anything going on yet, no veins or anything.. Maybe it's still too early to tell? My other...

Thanks everyone for your replies, I'm still waiting for my incubator to arrive in the post (it should be here any day now) I figured that I would just put a few eggs in it (it only takes 7 eggs anyway) and candle them after a week. This should give me a definite answer for if the eggs are...

Hi there, there's a few videos on YouTube if you just search "rooster collar" Here's a link to a good one: Basically it's a Velcro collar that goes on the roosters neck to reduce the volume of the crowing. My rooster loves crowing from about 4am and I was worried that the neighbours might...

I got this of a site (link to page included below- "Q: I got a terrible hatch. Does that mean most of my eggs were infertile? A: No, a terrible hatch doesn't mean that most or even any of your eggs were infertile! They may all have been fertile. Remember, just because an egg doesn't hatch...

Thankyou for your reply, So do the white spots mean nothing? I know that a lot of people look for a white "bullseye" on their eggs but there are so many variations of this that I can't work it out. I will start collecting my eggs from tomorrow onwards and put them in the incubator (it only holds...

Hi, thankyou very much for this post, It's very informative. I'm very new to this and I have been googling and reading through this site for clarification but I can't seem to find it. I hope you don't mind me asking here but can anyone tell me if these eggs look fertile or not? My white spots...

Has anyone on here had issues with fertility with their wyandottes? I have two hens and one rooster, they are mating all the time. One hen went broody over a clutch of eggs but nothing came of it. After 20 something days and then candling the eggs, there was no evidence that any of them ever...

Oh, the rooster and hen have been seen mating almost every day if that helps too..

I'm having the worst time trying to breed my chickens :-(

Can anyone please tell me if these eggs are fertile or not? I'm new to this and have been looking at pictures of other peoples eggs for ages trying to work it out :-/ Yesterday's egg: Today's fresh egg: I have 2 gold laced wyandotte hens (one not laying since she went broody) and 1 gold...