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Hi This as the post says is my 5th try at hatching my orps this year. We have hatch last year and we were sucessful so can anyone give me some tips as to whats going wrong. I will try all detail Ok so the eggs are deffenatly fertile we eat them too so I check before we eat and can see the...

Hi All you lovely chicken lovers Im on my 3rd batch in the bater this year and nothings happening 18 eggs. The first two I let go all the way, 22days and opened them up at the end and nothing was fertil but I knew that from candling but just incase (just use a tourch). This last batch are day 7...

Thanks elmo I will follow your advice thanks. Don't want a lonely chick I had one in the past and had to buy it a friend coz it was so sad!!! Even gave it a rubber duck for a few days to stop it feeling so lonsom however it decided that I was mum and followed me everywhere until I got the other...

Sorry trying to sex a 3 day old chick my orpington are now 28wks old and I know who's a boy and whos a girl (the morning call gives it away)

Thanks Cloverleaf, I think I will leave her a week with the chick and collect eggs in the mean time then see if she will sit on them in one go this time!!! I've got a friend who also has a broody hen so can always pass the eggs her way if it doesn't workout

Hi anyone really know how to sex young chick's?? I have Orbingtons and even at 6/8 weeks old they are not nessicerilly that easy to sexs from comb's and feathers. Combes on females can be quite red and large and they have lots of feathers. From a previous hatch I had 5 chicks 2 cockrells and...

Hi all Ive never had a chicken go broody on me so much to my excitment one did. So I happily set her on a couple of orbington eggs and over the next 3 days added 1 /2 more a day - is this wroung??? Last hatch day past yesturday and only one chick has come out of 7 eggs, one she pushed out of...

We can kill them in this country, but I don't have a gun, we may get one in the future for rabbits. I have fired off a very high powered riffel at the rabbit round here and I didn't hit even with really good sights so to hit a flying magpie is going to be almost imposible or I'm just a really...

I think Moabite might of been having a sound off cos he was angery at his dog, understandable and like many of us when we are angery many be said a few things that are not really ment. Good luck Moabite with the dogs and chickens I have a Staffordshire bull terrier she is very silly and will...

The water cannon was a serious suggestion, just trying to bring asmile to peoples face'sbut seriously if any animal gets hit with a powerful jet of water they won't like it. Its been used on dog for sinple dog training exercises with small water pistols etc. But I'm figuring that the lady might...

I have a roo in each coop and each coop has a free range pen so the cockrells pretty much don't go in until bed time and then are to far away to see or care about a magpie going in - and you know magpies are smart so I swear today one sat on the roof as look out while the other went in to...

No one has suggested a big water cannon (water socker) some dogs will think it fun some will hate it - If the animals are light colours put some bright food die in the water then you can bug your naughtbour when her dog comes back blue or pink!! Haha. I could never shoot a dog unless it was...

In the UK they are black and white birds which are about the same size as a crow, in the UK they will steal eggs and baby chick's from wild bird nest all the time. For this reason they are not a very popular bird with me anyway now they are super not very proplar I saw a pair going in and out of...

Hi Looking for some help, I have 3 coops with differant breed of cooks in over the last month we have had a drop in our eggs and wet patch's in the chickens coops. I suspected that the chickens were eating their own eggs so went and got some dummy eggs two days later they had dissappeared...

Sorry tp say this but a dog is a dog and it is the animals instinct is to "chase" if it catch's what it chase's it normally will do harm. I think that your approch that you would consider killing your dog because you left it with a chicken and it did harm is really questionable. If your dog...

Hi There I have had experiance with both my first ever rooster was a Welsummer and mean as hell, I still have the scar on my leg to prove it. I quickly move him on to someone who wanted a mean bird and got one of his sons - who is fine with me but you need to be confident and he does his job -...

Hi can any helpful soul help me out, my black orpington hen has a bubbly right eye. It clear stuff and her eye does not look sore, I notice last week that she's sneezing and the other day she did a poo by me and I can only say it was watery, hardly anything too it really. She laid an egg...

Butter won't harm chickens same as a bit of milk in oats. Same as us don't let them have too much as like us will get unhealth fat but a bit every now and again won't hurt. If they are anything like mine if they don't like it they won't eat it

Hi all Wondered if anyone has information on how to raise cockrell for eating? Currently have 3 cockrells which are free ranging with my flock but will be looking to remove them in the spring as they will be approx 20/ 25 wks old and will have searved there perpose of helping keep the coop warm...

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction I was also worried that they would be tough so glad to hear that they may not be the case