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I have about 5 Broody Silkies, that are proving hard to break. I have some eggs hatching tomorrow and am wondering would it be ok to place a chick under each hen to try to break them, my first problem is I only have one enclosed area to house a broody it will hold 5 hens but will they are...

I put some eggs in a week apart, I was going to remove the second batch to a smaller incubator when the first was going into lockdown. But I'm now thinking the incubator is large and it's only 12 eggs, do you think it would be ok to leave the 12 at one end of the incubator still on the turner...

Great! The chicks are now 12 weeks old and still solid black so fingers crossed

I only mean looks-wise, I'm just wondering if I don't breed black/black is it certain that it will near impossible for them to turn out a solid black colour. Or it is possible that my solid black chicks could have come from a mix of Black / White.

I have a Grey a white and black Rooster plus various color hens. I recently hatched some pure black hens, I would like to know, If I got rid of my black rooster, will that mean any future chicks I hatch cant be pure black. Must a breed black/black to get black? I know the white can carry...

Thanks! I've thought this since they were day-old chicks the second one was always bossier, I read light Sussex roosters tend to be a bit aggressive and need at least 10-12 hens. the rest of my flock is mainly silkies. would this be true in general?

Both? Arr I was thinking the first was a Hen...

What would you guess on these two both still young only 9.5 weeks old

Thanks was unable to find any in stock in the end So I went with the Brinsea 56 instead

Anyone use hoverbator are they good

So, I decided to go with the loom bands, it seems to work fine so far, none have fallen off and its week 2, I've added some pics the first pic is 1-day old 2nd pic 8 days old. The bands do stretch a lot so no chance of getting stuck on. I only hatched 20 chicks and there are many colours so...

Thanks for the reply, I can get hold of zip ties in my Diy store, I just thought they look quite hard ( the plastic and is it not difficult to get that off? If by chance the zip tie got too tight looks like it would be a nightmare to remove.

I want to tag my chicks due to hatch in 5 days, I wanted to buy baby leg bands but I can't find any online to ship to me, I have lots of loom bands 1.5-2cm do you think they will be ok to use wrapped around twice? or are there any other cheap suggestions or alternative things I can use from...

Thanks, I’m leaving it where it is.

Advice please I have 10 eggs in the air incubator, all looking good and moving on day 10, I accidentally badly cracked an egg on day one and repaired with candle wax and put it spare still air incubator. The cracked egg also looks good with moving chick inside, should I leave it where it is or...

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