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cluckcluckluke said:
:weee I have three chicks out so far.
They were all peeping last night.





This morning I woke up to and almighty crash, heaps of cheeping and....meowing:mad: .
I raced downstairs to find Ziggy ( cat ) sitting on the bench with eggs shells around him, the incubator in pieces on the floor along with three chicks and broken eggs:( .
We managed to clear everything up and get all the eggs and chicks safely back into the warmth of the bator.
Luckily the bator nor any of the hatched chickens were broken and the remaining eggs are still wriggling with some peeping. So not really sure how it will all pan out but at least we got some chicks.
Bloody cats:mad: !!!
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Gratz on your chicks. Hope the others all make it out ok.:)
 
Wish you well on the rest of the eggs and hatching Luke
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Hi everyone. I have introduced this hen to my other chickens. All went pretty well. No pecking just a bit of running each other away. My question is how old do you think this chicken is? When I got her she was listed as 13weeks about 3 weeks ago. Just wondering if any of you agree or disagree with her being about 16weeks ?

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Looks about right age to me for a LS. She is quite large which makes me think it is accurate. I would not think she was any older though.

In my experience, some sellers add a bit of time to the birds age, makes them closer to POL and worth a bit more. We got caught out like that in the beginning. Sold to us as 17 weeks but not knowing any better we didn't see the signs, was probably closer to 12!

Our LS started to lay about 24 weeks, yours may be a little bit earlier, or a little later but either way you still have a bit to go.

Nice bird BTW
 
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