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Hi Everyone.At the moment i have managed to hatch 3 chicks in my incubator with another 3 on the way out. Could anyone please give me some advice on how to sex the boys from the girls, as last time they were quite old before it was clear to me what sex they were, and i dont want to wait that...

Hi everyone, Last year I managed to hatch 5 eggs in the incubator after one of the chickens sat on the eggs for 10 days and then got off, we thought we had lost them, but 5 chicks were born much to my delight. They are now quite old, and live with the other chickens and cockerel, and here comes...

Hi Everyone, We managed to hatch 5 eggs in the end and all are growing very fast and seem to be doing really well. We have them in a safe place (in a barn) and they are still under the heat lamp that has now gone a little higher, due to the size of the babies, and they are aprox 6 weeks old. The...

Hi EveryoneWe have had a chicken sitting on some eggs for the last 2 weeks, and as we have a cockerell was hopping to have some chicks. But overnight she has left the nest, and this is the second time this has happened over the last couple of months, we dont know if she has been frightened off...

Hi everyone, Can some one give me some advice. We have lost 2 chickens recently no outward signs of where they have gone, we think it might be a fox, but we are only guessing, as all the chickens are free range, but there was no feathers nothing, also we had a chicken die on us, she seemed to be...

Hi everyone, Can someone please tell me why my cockerel of just over a year old clucks like a chicken. He does crow and he is doing what a cockerel should do with the girls, but he also clucks like one of the girls, this might be normal, or it might be a little strange, but never having a...

Hi Everyone, I am hoping someone can help me. We have 11 chickens at the moment and a cockrall, all seem very happy and nothing has changed in respect of food, habits, and well being. But over the last 3 days we have had no eggs, we have been getting around 10 or 11 everyday, and overnight we...

Hi Everyone, Just a quick question. We have 11 very spoiled chickens who are laying at the moment between 6 and 8 eggs per day, and seem very content and happy, they all have free range of our small holding on the side of the Black mountains. We are feeding the chickens on a mixed corn, as well...

Hi, Everyone, AS most of you know i am new to keeping chickens, so i have a question. We have 11 chickens that range in age from 2half years to 6 months old, They are free range and have the full run of our garden, that is just under an acre. What i want to know is what i am doing wrong as we...

Hi, Really worried about one of our chickens, we have 11 chicken in all and one has a very sore bottom, with no feathers with some small areas that are very red, but some days dont look quite as bad, the areas on some days look like they might bleed. She is eating well and seems happy with the...

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