With mardi and her large broode shes in a box with water n food in a,fewdays i'll put them in a box they can be in or out of. Every other time i've let them go. I just check water bowls arent too deep. ...
9 babies now o.O
Dansta do you seperate your chooks that are sitting on eggs from the rest?
i just found an empty shell but no chick
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With mardi and her large broode shes in a box with water n food in a,fewdays i'll put them in a box they can be in or out of. Every other time i've let them go. I just check water bowls arent too deep. ...
9 babies now o.O
your on a roll!
how do you candle the eggs i might have to do this im not too confident on how many are groeing vs rotting
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You do need to be careful of other hens who may peck and kill the chicks, but if it's been okay before, then I suppose it will be this time too. Just put some marbles or small stones from the garden in the water bowls and then the chicks will be fine whatever the depth.
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You know they can take up to 48 hours after pipping to hatch? It is not a great idea to help them out as the hatching process cuts off the blood vessels they been attached to the egg with, etc. I helped one out once in a broken egg, it lived 2 days and then died
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i agree with not helping them. I remember my mother always saying they needed that time to do it by themselves. They gain strength from the challenge
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The ones that have been helped out where left by mardi...so we'll see
They're under a light atm. But if they pass, so be it kwim? Its a learning lession. plus my neighbour said 'if they cant brake the shell, they'll die any way' could be right too....
Upside is itmight make boof used to chooks.
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Woke up expecting at least one dead chick...but all three inside made it!! Tilli is strongest and when they had floor time attempted to follow me. All other (10) chicks under mardi have been moved into.the empty side of the chook shead, they cant escape from there and they're away from other chooks and in this weather they dont have a leaky roof.
I cant help but feel proud that thus far they're alive
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Congrats love
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Spoke too soon with 120mm of rain 9 chicks drowned, I pulled one out and now I have 4 inside. Put sand/stone on the floor to try and build up the floor :-/ kind of fml moment. Hopefully thease ones will make it...
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oh no, that sucks.
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Yay great work!! EDIT - sorry I must read whole thread before posting. Very sorry about the losses!
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Oh that's awful Dansta!
Welcome Bella and GL with the chicken preparation. When do you move in? We had two girls from chicks and that was a great experience for DD. One died after about a year (DD was devastated) and we got two more at point of lay (very hard to introduce chicks to fully grown hens). All are very friendly and actually the one most lugged around by DD1 is one of the ones we got at point of lay. Ours are ISAs too.
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Oh no Dansta!!! poor little loves!
Jen, have you noticed we seem to be in an awful lot of the same threads? LOL! We move in in about 19 days
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LOL Bella, I was starting to wonder who's stalking who!And Hot1 as well!
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Yeah I was gonna mention hotI! Maybe we are all just soul sisters!
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soul sisters
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Still no eggs here, think we got duds
I have to go buy more straw and clean out the 'hotel' but girls are sick today so that's a no
We want to buy some more chooks so will have to maybe find a breeder around here... HotI any suggestions?
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