Hi there from a new member all the way down here in New Zealand

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I am from Australia and I LOVE New Zealand! We had our honeymoon there, on the North Island, its wonderful - I want to move over but no one else does...
Hope your chicken situation improves - I won't even try to hatch an egg... we aren't allowed to keep roosters and I get attached to everything so if I had a boy it would be a disaster!!
As a fellow newbie to the site, welcome and everyone has been so helpful!
 
yeah it doesnt sound like a disease from your coop, so this is just flat out strange! I would only suggest to try again, this time, if i was u, i would buy hatching eggs from another breeder! not to say you didnt receive good eggs, but sometimes different breeder linage just work better. and you might want to try a different breed this time, unless your just set on having barnevelders. it looks like trail and error will be key to having a successful hatch for you.

On the other note, I live out in the country too, so I have lots of space! and i just love the outdoors! chickens become a passion once you've raised them from chicks to adults. and when i say passion i mean addiction! ha. stay using the forums and you'll grow in your admiration for chickens, i promise! you might want to post your question in a different section to hope for a better answer. heres 2 links, create a thread in each one asking the same question and give them all the details you gave me! again i wish you the best of luck!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/5/incubating-hatching-eggs

https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/10/emergencies-diseases-injuries-and-cures

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Welcome to BYC.

Sorry about your loss.
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Thanks. I stumbled onto this site while surfing the net at work. Really enjoying it!
 
I live in Auckland as well, but South down in the Hunua ranges. Beautiful country!
 
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thanks. First forum I've ever joined and loving how many welcomes I'm getting!!!
 
You chose a great place for your honeymoon then. I have only been to Oz once, went to Perth and just loved it. The only thing I wasn't in love with was the size of your bugs!!! They are enormous compared to ours!
Losing the chicks has been hard. I try to keep telling myself what a dairy farmer friend told me a while ago, "where there is livestock there is deadstock" but it's still hard when you lose the whole clutch!
Thinking I may get some young chicks rather than trying to hatch but will need to do a bit more homework first.
We live out in the country, just out of Auckland so not too far out. Used to be a city girl but my heart has always been in the country and now the dream has come true.
I'm loving this site! Everyone is so friendly and helpful!!!
 
Thanks
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I'm curious about the high content wolf dogs??? We don't have wolves here, is that a domestic that has bred with a wolf?
New Zealand buck, I'm assuming that's a deer? How did you manage to get that? I'm surprised how many Americans know where NZ is! We are so small and far away I didn't think it would be that well known.
My fiance has been over to the States a few times and always had to explain where he was from. A lot thought it was part of Australia
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Still, my geography of your country is pretty bad, but it's definitely on my list of "go to" places!!!
 

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