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laying eggs is no trouble for your birds its bringing up the young that takes it out of them it once took 18 months to get a pair of birds to breed (i was desperate to get this pair to breed) so you never know

i dampen mine with milk and bread this is the first year i have really done this and had a lot more birds try it

she may want to breed just not with jack

thats fine i stop feeding greens when the chicks hatch

when you are sure it is not going to hatch remove it

we all started sometime

tequilabudge you should have blocked the nest box hole up for 3 to 4 days to make sure she has time with the **** then given access as you mite end up with another clear clutch if its been 7 to 10 days since you took the eggs away she could be getting ready to lay again

spot on rainbow

you could try some proabotics from your vet or pet shop you can order them of the web as well you just add them to the water

that i cant help with as i said before there are many many ailments that this is a side effect off

this condition is called clag and there are many causes you did the rite thing by removing this as it could block the vent and kill the bird it should be removed twice a day if possible by immersing the back end of the bird in warm water and the mass gntly teased apart

its about ?145 including postage

i already have an ioniser and an external fan the air filter from saferi also blows the air back into the room unfortuatly it seems to be out of stock at the moment

they were not dead in the shell as they did not get that far i candled them after about 8 days and all the eggs were fertile but the big ones did not go any further ie no chick developed

something to do with the size of the eggs as all the rest of the clutch hatched and lived

the large eggs were fertile but did not hatch

i dont know that but last year i had a hen that layed two eggs double the size of normal eggs to this day i do not know how she passed them

sorry i have to disagree with this 99.9% of the eggs my birds lay are around the same size this year i have had one egg the same as you and it does not affect any more eggs she lays in this clutch or future clutchs

cheers chirpy

some of my hens are more nervous when taken from the breeding cages but soon settle

i cant say exactly if mine go marble like as once i have candled them i dont check that closley i check the nest twice a day but that is to check on the hen

i mark my eggs with a water based marker pen that i was given till now but alas it has stopped working so i went to the news agents for a new one and they dont actually say if they are water or ink based so my question is the ones marked washable are these water based

i tend to find an odd egg on the floor of the flights after i have removed the hens from the breeding cages but not full clutches

some hens dont start incubating untill the second egg is laid also i find if any arnt going to hatch it is normally the first one that fails it would have been best to candle them at about 4 to 6 days old to see the veins but my eggs do go darker as they get older

sure will i have ordered this one as we had a talk from a champion breeder at our club who suffered from asthma and was thinking about giving up due to the dust used this filter and improved 100%