Hi. I counted up the incubation dates wrongly and took the turning machine out, lowered the temperature slightly, and added extra water (as instructed on the machine details) a day early i.e. day 17 rather than day 18. Will this be a problem? Can I do anything to save the situation? I am now...
My hen has just started to sit on eggs. This morning I found that she had broken one (I think she stood on it) and some of the rest now have yolk on them. I wiped them gently with some straw and removed most of it. Will they still incubate and hatch, or would it be best to replace all of the...
Hi. I have a broody hen and want to give her eggs. I have 6 that I marked with a red cross with a felt tip pen before I realised she was broody. Can I still give her these eggs or do I have to wait for new ones? :-)07
This probably sounds like a stupid question but answers would be appreciated. We have a problem with hatching at this time of year and through the Summer here in Crete as the temperatures rise. We have chicks that start to pip but cannot make it out of the shells. We lost 4 today. The hens...
One of our lovely chicken Rita Hen is broody and sitting on eggs. She sat on them for about 36 hours and then managed to get out and was off them for about 8 hours until I noticed her (she could not get back in). Bearing in mind that the air temperature here has been above 20C during those 8...
We have 5 lovely baby turkeys now almost 1 week old. They are in an approximately 4 foot high brooder with a bantam hen who is doing a sterling job of looking after them. I would like to let them free as soon as possible. To get to the brooder there is a wooden pallet which the bantam quite...
We have a lovely little baby turkey that was doing very well and seemed strong - she is nearly one month old. All of a sudden her legs seem to have given way on her and although still very lively, is eating and drinking, and chirping happily, she cannot stand up. Please advise as I am...
Our lovely turkey, Daphne, is broody and we are collecting eggs from her and our other turkeys for her to sit on... she is happily sitting on stones at the moment! How many should we give her to sit on? She is a big girl so obviously we want to give her as many as possible to raise our chances...
Hi folks. We keep turkeys and chose one to invite for dinner (yum). This was a large white male with a beard - or so we thought. When it came to jointing we found to our amazement that the male turkey had eggs forming inside... so not a male after all. :-)07 We checked through the...
We have three males and 5 females. One of the males is 'strutting his stuff' and also attacking the other males and occasionally the females as well. The others are very docile. Should we intervene or just let them sort themselves out? I am concerned that he may seriously injure them - is...
We have a mystery. We have had several broody hens on eggs and are finding that eggs are disappearing. For example, yesterday I checked on Hilda who had three eggs that were to hatch today and there were only two. Likewise Beryl had 7 eggs yesterday which should hatch on Thursday, and today...
We have just successfully given a broody hen, Madge, three chicks from the incubator and she has adopted them - the chicks are now a week old. :D We know have three more eggs that have started to hatch today in another incubator and a broody hen, Hilda, sitting on eggs that are due to...
We live in Crete and have free range chickens. Everyday I try to collect the eggs as quickly as possible as the weather is hot and even though the nesting boxes are in the shade the temperatures are in 30s :D this time of year. On the days that we are out all day I have been thought that...
We live in Crete. We have had some success with our hens going broody and them hatching chicks but the number of successes are becoming fewer. My gut feeling is that it is because the weather is so hot here now. Today our latest broody, Madge, had three dead chicks. It looked like they had...
We live in Crete and have one gander, 5 ducks, 40+ chickens and 6 turkeys all free range together. We have a very broody turkey, Piggle, but unfortuntaley our males are only four months old so she is not going to produce her own young yet. She was so broody that she was virtually stalking the...
We have just bought four turkey poults, two are about a one - two weeks old and the other two about two - three weeks old (we think). We already have 5 turkeys who are 4-5 months old. At the moment we are keeping them separate day and night, but would like to put them all together at night as...
We live in Crete and have free range chickens. Our lovely Clucky has just hatched 5 chicks and another is imminent. We are new to having our own chicks hatch so need advice on when we can let them with the rest of the flock. before this we have bought chicks at two weeks old and kept them...
We live in Crete and we have three or four hens that are all going broody at the same time. We already have a hen with chicks in one brooder and another has just started to sit on a clutch of eggs in another. So that is both of our brooders occupied. Can we put more than one broody hen on her...
We live in Crete. Our first chicks should start to hatch today from our broody hen Clucky. How long do we leave the chicks with her when they hatch before we separate her from them and put her back with the others please? The weather is warm here and does not drop lower than 12 degrees at the...
We have a broody hen, Clucky, sitting on eggs - one of them is a duck egg. We have no idea whether they are fertilised or no, we have very active cockerels though, and are just letting nature take its course and leaving her to it. We moved her into her own little shed and she settled very...