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they may just be resting whatever you do dont open the bator or your chicks willstick to the shell and die really no other way to put it !!

yep! but if you do see them 'attacking each other' then just split them apart again. i have mixed baby chicks with 2 week old chicks and the babies just saw them as mother figures! :)

well hens are unpredictable of going broody but you can encorage it by not lifting the eggs (so they build up a batch of eggs). the weather over their is probally sun,sun,sun unlike rainy scotland! so i think you will be okay with letting them set around this time right now right up to october...

your welcome :)

yes :) you see the little white 'ring' ? this mean they are fertile.

HELLO!! im also from ayrshire scotland and i have finall found two more people from SCOTLAND :)

don't worry im paniking too!! this is the first year that i have decided to fatten up all my cockrels that i hatch and use them for meat and im terrified that i don't do it right and i put them in pain!! :(

1) yes definetly you don't want to start incubating unfertile eggs do you :) 2) i would leave one egg in yes mark it with a pencil :) and the rest incubate or eat :)

well i have been longing my hen to go broody and finally shes started showing signs! shes laying on 6 eggs ! shes went all puffy and shoving eggs underneath her but sometimes she moves half way of the nest and theres like 4 eggs uncovered oops! but she moves back onto them. but now i have...

i made it out of a cardboard box lol !! :)

ill be setting round about then i have just built a 40 egg incubator so fingers crossed good luck !

will it be on this thread ?

well i started out with 6 hybred chickens and a white star roo *R.I.P* and then i got my bator after that i had 40 chickens !!!! i had to build a bigger chicken coop !! they finished 4, 6kg feeders per day !! i way over my head although it was amazing how i could tell each other apart ! i culled...

hi i was wondering what do gudges look for whilst showing a chicken or eggs thatnks :)

i want to add a incubator called the cardbatorbox :)

well im in the middle of making a new bator out of a cardboard box but i was thinking ill do it still air this time but what do you think your hatch rate was better with still air or fan assisted and also what temp and humid do you think it will have to be for a still air * im doing the dry...

you don't have to get the vaccination but if you want to prevent from happining yes get it but the hatchery has probally done it already if you want to find out just phone them and ask :)

whats your temp and humid ? :)

65-70% i would say! :)

Congrats :)