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Oh crap ! - another broody hen

 
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Camile
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:55 am    Post subject: Oh crap ! - another broody hen Reply with quote


another one ! that's 4 hens out of 7 !

and this one is "supposed to be" an Ancona .. I say supposed because they are not supposed to go broody .. and are fairly good layers of smallish white eggs ... she layed throughout the winter barely missing a day since october last ..

http://www.omlet.co.uk/breeds/breeds.php?breed_type=Chickens

Should I change their diet or something ?

Camile
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keithrawlins



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
they ALOMST never go broody, but any bird will sometime start siting on eggs. the man i got my first birds of, had a roster that wasbroody it had hatched 2 eggs and was rasing the chicks well.so you never know.
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Camile
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
the rooster went broody !?! Shocked class ..

I have a silky rooster that minds the chicks like a mum .. but he never got broody on me .. yet .. Cool
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
it was funny when i arived and seen him standing with a chick perched on each spur.
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wayland



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
keithrawlins wrote:
it was funny when i arived and seen him standing with a chick perched on each spur.


I suppose that this is the chook version of the "New man". Whoever he was. Laughing


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