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Just to let you know that Seanie passed away in the early hours of this morning in the arms of his loving mum and dad. It must be the most devastating thing in the world. If you do pray, you might remember them in your prayers so that they will have strength for the coming days and beyond.

Please pray for this little boy and his family. Last night his ventilator was turned off as he is losing his fight' His parents have been holding him in their arms since. It's the saddest thing I can imagine. I am so upset. We have all been watching and praying for the past 2 weeks and had all...

Thanks for the reply. We decided to let her sit. I told my husband what you had posted and he is going to do a few things over the weekend to sort it so that she can be on her own with eggs/chicks. I wonder could we quickly mark existing eggs and remove later ones if othrs go in and...

Hi. We are new to keeping chickens. We recently hatched our first batch (11 chicks from 18 eggs) in our incubator and we have started collecting eggs this week to put on the incubator in the next few days. Our problem is that one of our hens looks like she has decided to go broody over the past...

Hi! I'm new here but have just had a look at your thread and the lovely pics you just posted. I just wanted to congratulate you on your lovely little man turning one. I had fertility treatment to get both of my children (son 6 and daughter turns 2 this coming wednesday) and although I only...

Just an update for those who were kind enough to say a prayer...It's still looking pretty bad for the little boy. He had a setback today and is back on the ventilator. All are just praying for his mum and dad and family and that he will improve. I'll let you know if there is any change. Thanks...

Thank you all for the kind thoughts and prayers. The latest news is that he had a scan yesterday and it showed 40% brain activity...not sure what this means but it sounds better than it did initially. I will post if I hear any updates. Thanks again, there are a lot of people praying for him and...

Thank you so much.

Hi. I am new here - more of a reader at the moment as I am just new to owning chickens and just found the site a few weeks ago while hatching our first chicks. I have been a member of a forum at home (Ireland) for about 8 yrs for pregnancy, parenting, etc. Initially I went there bcause I was...

Hi! We hatched our first goose a month ago and got another for company when it was 3 days old. It was a week older so considerably bigger than ours. It had already been pecked before we got it and I read that this can encourage others to peck. Ours started pecking it immediately. I got my...

Thanks Whitewinterwolf. I suppose that it's always good to know that your pets/animals have had a good life because they were with you. Sad to think of the animals that haven't been treated well. What do you show? Has it always been the same breed or have you had different breeds?

I used to show. We showed one dog - our Neapolitan Mastiff called Murphy. He became the very first Irish Kennel Club Champion Neapolitan Mastiff and an International Champion. We struggled to keep attending shows with him after my first child arrived as most shows were quite a distance and had...

Hi! We are on our first hatch. Most of them have gone well over what I had expected from pip to being out and all did it in super quick time once they were finally ready to make the move. They were very definitely resting up in between. I interfered on one today as it had been looking very...

Well...we now have 9 hatched and 2 more pipped...I am thinking that is not too bad for a first try out of 18, and who knows, we might get a few more. I now fully understand the old saying "Don't count your chickens before they hatch"! JusticeFamilyFarm, I hope to see you about the boards too...

Hello Ladysfield! I have just joined too. Hopefully we'll meet on the boards.

Thank you all for such a warm welcome. Sorry for disappearing - I had family over for the weekend and then today the chicks started to arrive. Day 22, so we had been feeling pessimistic by the time pipping started, thinking all was lost. 2 emerged in the last few hours and 4 more have...

Hello! I have just discovered this site over the past few weeks...guess who has got a new incubator and is demented already! It has been fantastic to be able to dip in here and learn so much from your members and also to see that I'm not the only one going nuts during the incubation process...