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A Guide to Keeping Chickens Part 6-Hatching Chicks

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The penultimate post in my chicken keeping series is raising chicks. There are two ways to do it. With a cockerel in your flock, if a hen goes broody and wants to sit on eggs, you can let her and let nature take its course. In three weeks, fertility dependant, you could have a clutch … [Read more…]

Hatching Eggs 2018

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I haven’t successfully hatched eggs since 2016. I did set the incubator up last year and put eggs in but it was in the farm workshop and it got accidentally knocked off the table. The eggs were ruined and my incubator broken and, with a new baby, I just couldn’t be bothered looking into it … [Read more…]