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Hi can anyone help me - whilst I have kept ducks for a few years and am getting to know about their habits etc - I have recently been brought some call ducks and am slowley at surely finding my way with them - only thing I having trouble with is deciding if they are male or female...

Hi I've recently got two new girls and they have started laying this week. The problem is that lola ( my amber link) has layed twice now and the shell of the egg is really thin so that both times by the time i have got to them (they have both been layed at night they have been broken. Hannah (...

Don't know what happened to the last pics i did something wrong Have finally got it right i think and would appreciate your help on if its a boy or a girl !

Here are the best pictures i can get at the moment ... don't know if they help : kens.com/forum/uploads/7840_camera_2_012.jpg[/img] She / he is a cross between a polish mummy and i don't know what kind of daddy he/she got a small bobble coming

I'm sorry ... this must sound really silly but what are the saddle feathers ? ... we are new to this chicken game

Hi Just a quick question on the subject of he / she ? We have a 13wk old chick who has started making a funny noise ... a bit like a cross between a crowing and the sort of warning noise my other chickens make if something startles them or they are demanding to come out. We thought straight away...

Hi we have an 8 wk old polish chick we dont know if its a boy or a girlie. How old will they start showing signs ?

No more babies i'm afraid but our little one is doing very well. They seem to be really enjoying looking after her .... last night i went out to check on her and the two mummy hens were snuggled up together and i swear one had her wing on the other one ... i srtoked each ones head to say...

I know how you feel ... our egg started to hatch on saturday morning and i think i was more nervous than when i had my own children ! Luckily we now have a beautiful little bundle of black feathers that is now 4 days old ! My Husband kept telling me to calm down ... but was awake himself at 5am...

Hi we have three eggs under two broody hens, One hatched on saturday and is now being very well taken care of by two chickie mums. Two of the eggs have not hatched but the hens have been sitting on them with just as much devotion as before ... we got the eggs from a friends hens and they were...

this piping .. is it a noise ? i heard cheeping from one egg that has now hatched but the end of the egg went a little see through and a darker colour than the rest of it. The other eggs have now changed to the same colour at the end but i cant hear anythuing from inside ... but both my broody...

Congrats on the new baby chickie ! We just had our first chickie hatch too but ours are under our two extremly good mummy chickens. still got two under and they sitting beautifully so dont know if the other two will hatch but think its a good sign that they still on em. A friend of mine has told...

Thanks for your advice ... i'm thinking that the fact that she still sitting on them is a good sign as she did flick one egg out of the nest quite early on which i am assured was probably due to there being something wrong with it. Any ideas how old my little chickie will be before i can tell if...

Hi , We set three eggs under our broody chickens and yesterday was day 21. In the night one little chickie appeared but nothing from the other two. They seem the same in appearence as the one that hatched and the mummy chicken has not discarded them but no cracks have appeared. I think i can...

Thanks .. not that sure what we are doing .. just hoping that my chiky will do what comes naturally. We did put three white eggs under her and one brown egg but the brown one seems to have gone .. thought that she maybe pushed it out as it was different or something was wrong .. no sign in the...

Hi when is the best time to candle the eggs we have put under our chicken mummy ? and we put them under her about 9.30 on friday night so does that mean we are now on day two ?

Hi Just wondered if someone could help -- we have four eggs under our broody chicken last night and checked they were there this afternoon but now there are only three under her. I don't want to look too much as she gets quite distressed and growls at us if we get too close. As far as i can...

Hi , We have just put four eggs under our very broody hen. she being such a good mum and sitting beautifully... however we just been out to her and their are now inly three eggs under her ... dont want to disturb her too much to find where it is but just wondered if this is common and where it...

We are having the same sort of problems with our chickens ... very noisey in the mornings ... so much so that i've started to wake up really early to let them out as the neighbours won't be impressed being woken up at 6 ! are there any suggestions and are they noiser because they have started...

Thank you that gives me loads of ideas... loving the one bout putting bells in their ... my cats already love watching chicken t.v. now they get to hear musical chicken t.v ... it could be the mtv of the chicken world although one sudden movement from the chickens does result in three very...