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    Broody help

    Have 7 chickens and only getting 0-3 eggs a day (2 are silkies so not expecting them to pay their way 😂) at the minute. They’ve not been laying elsewhere either, so it’s not like they’ve been scared off by the broodies and laying somewhere else. Eggmerelda is in the crate now, hopefully it’ll...
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    Broody help

    Hi all. Have two broodies - is it normal for them to stick together like glue?! I’m trying a broody jail now as for this one it’s been a month, she won’t break no matter how many times I shove her out of the coop/nest each day, I don’t leave any eggs in there at all and they’ve just been...
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    Help please

    I’d say the second one is doing better than the first. First hatched last night, second this morning.
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    Help please

    The other 3 they hatched with are absolutely fine (all from the same batch of eggs) so it’s weird how it’s just these two. Yes I’ve put hobbles on, and I’ve put some vitamins in their water but neither seem to be eating or drinking so I’m dripping onto their beaks.
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    Help please

    Hi, I got her mixed up with one of the others - she’s actually only born last night! Another hatched this morning, with a similar “bum dragging” issue but this one took a long time to get out once zipped. Seemed… sticky?! But is ok now. This one also had a twisted toe on one foot so I’ve...
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    Help please

    2 day old chick has been fine, walking/eating/drinking/pooing but I woke up this morning and it’s like this: Any advice please?! Is it splay leg even if the legs are out to the front? It walks still, fairly quickly! It just seems more of a waddle/shuffle now and like it’s dragging its bum? Not...
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    It’s been 12 hours, would you assist?

    He, and one of our kids, wants to get meat chicks to raise and fill the freezer but I can’t… it’s one thing to eat them but another to raise them and then eat them! They have names and personalities… I just couldn’t.
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    It’s been 12 hours, would you assist?

    He’s always liked them but he’s been at home a lot more lately, and they’ve taken to following him round the garden so he loves them now. He had a cat called Plantpot when he was a little kid so I knew what I was getting into when I said he could give names to them 😂
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    Sorry!!

    Sorry for yet another post but my brain has too many tabs open..! I’ve had 5 eggs hatch since Thursday, in our incubator. I’ve also got 5 eggs outside in the coop under our broodies (they’re sharing/babysitting!) I’ve not moved them to a different area, they’re all in the nest boxes still (I...
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    It’s been 12 hours, would you assist?

    Panic over, he/she has arrived by themselves at 6.40am 😆 Welcome to the world baby Curry (don’t blame me, husband has named two chickens now… our big one is Chow Mein 😂)
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    It’s been 12 hours, would you assist?

    This is the last baby to hatch, the others appeared early hours Thursday and early hours Friday. It hadn’t even pipped when I took the dry babies out. It’s been 12 hours and this is the progress it’s made, would you assist or hold off as it’s breathing and cheeping?
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    What do we have?

    Thank you. Wonder if they’ll lay coloured eggs or just be cream/brown, I know they get blue ones at the farm where these eggs came from.
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    What do we have?

    Thanks so much. We’ve got 3 mixed bantams from last year, a frizzle pekin, a pekin and 2 silkies (all bantams) so the mixedness doesn’t bother me in the slightest 😄 It’s just nice to see how they’ll potentially look when they’re grown!
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    22 day old egg still hasn't hatched, all other eggs have already hatched.

    Sorry to jump on but, I’ve had 5 eggs in the incubator, 4 hatched between midnight 03/04/25 and 5am 04/04/25, there is one left in there now (04/04/25 4.30pm) and I hear chirping but it’s not made an external pip. Humidity is 68-70% which is what it was when the others hatched. What should I do...
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    What do we have?

    Any breed identifying tips appreciated! Thanks so much
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    What do we have?

    Would anyone be able to tell me what breeds these two might be please? They came from a farm. Two darker eggs came from a marans X and I’m not sure about the others, there’s also a choice of 4 cockerels! Thank you ☺️
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    Day 19, I can’t contain myself 😂

    Thanks. I’ve moved the dry two, will leave the other two in there until they’re dry.
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    Day 19, I can’t contain myself 😂

    4th! Looks like the 5th egg has no pips at all. How long do I leave it before I candle it, if I should?
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    Day 19, I can’t contain myself 😂

    It’s also getting tight for space in there, it’s only an 8-egg incubator 🙈
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    Day 19, I can’t contain myself 😂

    Had 6 but 1 didn’t develop, candled before lockdown and all 5 were moving nicely… just waiting on the last two now but I can’t see if one has made a pip as it’s against the wall. The other has knocked some shell off and I can see the membrane moving when it moves but nothing else as yet and it’s...
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