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another dead chick?

having just candled the egg again i am convinced that it may have died in shell just like the previous batch in April.  It hasn’t grown in the last few days, is not moving at all and seems stuck to one side of the shell.
This is the last time i am going to use this [...]

Going solo

With just 6 days to go until hatching we have one egg in our incubator.  It is going to require lots of tlc when it hatches at least for a week or so wheh we plan to buy some newly hatched silkie chicks to keep it company

Ivys new nest

Candling the new batch

Last night hubby and i candled the 5 eggs we currently have in the  inci and found only 1 of them to be fertile.  We had virtually given up on them being any good when the final one showed us a tiny wriggling embryo surrounded by a spider like networks of veins.
It seems we are [...]

An extra nest?

Yesterday we bought a huge bale of straw for the chickens from Smilers Farm. We found it to be difficult to move around so we used some of it in the run and then left the rest of the bale secured safely in the corner of the run.  Hubby went into the run lunchtime to [...]

Daisy gets a reprieve

We took our cockerel to our local farm today, loaded our car up with food pellets, straw and other bits and 5 minutes alter as my hubby went to say goodbye to him he noticed that Daisy was bleeding heavily.
They had only put him in a coop with 2 hens and they had attacked him.  [...]

incubating eggs – Part 2

Having made the decision that Daisy has to go my sentimental hubby suggested keeping the next lot of eggs hatched before Sunday and trying to hatch them so that we have our own offspring.  So, he has just been up to the loft and got it down and we have been setting it up.  Got [...]

Daisy has to go

On sunday we are going to take our cockerel, Daisy back to the farm he came from as an egg, if they will still have him.  He is becoming a nuisance and quite violent. He is very protective of his hens and the eggs and he will fly at me and kick me with this [...]