Keeping Chickens Newsletter

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After another hour we went back in the shed to find it sitting up and chirping away. We had brought Frau Hendl and the other chick into the shed and after several attempts we got the mother to accept her other chick which was two days younger than the first one but they are two and a half weeks old and still getting on fine, they are still living in the shed but when the weather is good we leave the door open and they go foraging in the field with the other hens.

New chicks and mother. The browner one of the two is the one we thought was dead, we named him Clucky!

The rest of the eggs we left under the infrared lamp but as it was the first time we had ever used one we weren't sure how close it should be, we kept it around 12 to 14 inches over the eggs which were on straw in a box, on the 10th of Jan we noticed a little beak breaking from one of the eggs and then the head but a few hours later we was very sad to find there was no movement and the chick was dead. Perhaps we shouldn't have even tried this but we think the lamp was too close and the heat possibly killed it (?) Best wishes Carl & Sal.

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