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I heard of a breed called a Croad Langashan (thats not the right spelling Im sure) and its meant to lay a purpleish pink egg

I have searched and not found a clear answer on this - which Bantam lays the darkest eggs ? I understand there are Bantam versions of Marans and Welsummers and the like but none of those lay dark eggs like their large fowl counter parts, does anyone know of a breed of bantam that lays a nice...

Well I found them just scattered around the box, when I walked into the polytunnel in the morning it was just over 50 F and the box felt warm when I put my hand inside but not hot, I felt the bedding and that was warm. One of the bodies was actually near the entrance close to the heater, the...

Thank you... I do feel like giving up on raising my own chickens right now...but I do have another younger group of 10 that I hatched a couple of weeks after the ones I just lost, they are still being kept indoors, I have defiantly learned my lesson where heat is concerned. I also will not hatch...

Thanks for the support, I feel very bad about it as it was my first ever hatch and to loose them all in one night...I can only blame myself I should have taken more care. I did not know chickens are so sensitive to overheating, but I have since read that they do not have sweat glands and so can...

It is an electric fan heater just a very small one, I use it to keep the frost off my plants its not particularly warm, but I did have it near to the entrance of the box so maybe the heat was accumulating inside the box.

I hatched my own eggs in January of this year and have been happily raising my 9 chicks, they were around six weeks of age and getting a bit to large to keep in my house. Temperatures in the UK are early spring so around 50F during the day and just above freezing at night. As the chicks were...

Another pic of my new chicks

My new chicks that I have been telling you all about - proud dad here lol

Ya its so hard to know what to do, should you help should you not help, it drove me crazy ! I have decided I am not going to watch my next batch hatch, just check the temps and wait for cheeping lol

Hi just an update on this hatch ( I put pics of them further down the thread), they are all doing really well ! I got x1 silver laced Wyandotte from the only egg of that breed I had so very lucky there, I got x3 Buff Sussex, x1 Wheaten Maran and x4 Cream Leg Bar - of which 3 are girls yay ! In...

Hi just thought i would update on my hatch, the little cream leg bar girl I helped was first to push free of her shell and has done fine WEW !! She was quickly followed by a sister and a brother Cream Leg Bar who hatched out of smaller sized eggs just fine with no assistance. The are still 14...

Thanks AmyLynn, you are right I am going to stop fretting about it and just see what happens, I very quickly opened the incubator so I could wrap the troubled egg in damp paper, the chick is making a fair bit of noise so at least it has a healthy pair of lungs

Thanks for your replies, I was concerned that the chick may be in trouble, as that particular egg when candled showed only a very small air space and I thought the chick may have a bit too much fluid in the egg when I checked on day 18 - it is also rather a large egg too. I did remove the egg...

I am on day 20 and the first of my cream leg bars made a pip hole yesterday at about 8.30 pm, this morning at about 9.30 am, I became very concerned as very little progress had been made and there was a lot of dried gummy stuff - what looked like dried egg white around the pip hole almost...