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Harmony in the Hen House

May 25, 2013

It’s been a while since I have shared any stories about the girls. Perhaps, that is because we have finally found a flock that jives with personalities. There are no more roosters to wreak havoc. There are no more bully hens. The chicken drama has been gone for a while. Everything and everyone has just …

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Almost A Week in Photos: Sunshine and the Broodies

May 31, 2012

March 9, 2012 The Silkies were broody again. Sunshine was just sick of it. All day she kept kicking the girls out of the nesting boxes. She was on broody police duty. No one was going to sit in those boxes without laying eggs. I captured her in all her glory as she chased poor …

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Chickens Stories from Our Nest

Taking Turns at Being Broody

April 5, 2012

Waiting for a broody hen Every Silkie of ours takes their turn being broody. It seems that once one is done, another is found sitting upon barren pine shavings in the nesting boxes. This week, Fifi and Dolly have snapped out of their broodiness and Feathers and Autumn have snapped in. For the first time, …

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Motherhood is Universal

January 3, 2012

Last Winter Dolly is broody yet again. Her instinctual drive to be a mother never ceases to amaze me. Like clockwork, she completes being broody after 3 weeks. After about a week off the nest, she begins to lay again. Once she lays about 10 eggs, she returns to the empty nesting box and restarts …

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Musical Nesting Boxes

December 3, 2011

Fifi Fifi is over being broody! It seems as though this little fluff ball had been broody for over a month. During these past couple of days, I could see the veil lifting. She has been first with Feathers to jump out the coop door in the morning and I began to find her spending …

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Chickens Health Issues

Broody Patches

July 14, 2011

The temperature dropped overnight and I was awake listening to terrible rain and thunderstorms. We went to sleep with humidity and temperatures in the mid-eighties. We woke to a, dare I say, chilly breezy morning. It was 62 degrees F with little humidity. The chickens could not have been happier. They stayed nice and dry in the …

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Chickens Stories from Our Nest

Growing Pains

May 7, 2011

The transition of the little ones into the larger coop has gone okay. I can’t say that it has been entirely perfect but there has been no blood shed and Dolly is a natural mother. A couple of days ago, under the cover of darkness, I placed both Fifi and Dottie Speckles under Dolly. Little …

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Chickens Eggs Stories from Our Nest

Broody Strategies

April 9, 2011

We are in this together! Just another Saturday in the life of these two broody girls. Here are the facts: These two have been broody since the beginning of March. They are sitting on invisible eggs. I found these two together in the center nesting box. They are smart that they sit in opposite directions, …

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Chickens Stories from Our Nest

3 Broody Hens

March 29, 2011

Broody hens, I’ve got 3 Won’t somebody rescue me! They sit all day and growl and squack They do not leave to take a walk Fluffed out upon the nest they sit Tail feathers spanned to throw a fit No Silkie eggs that they protect No Silkie eggs for us to collect Invisible are the eggs they see …

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Harmony in the Hen House

Almost A Week in Photos: Sunshine and the Broodies

Taking Turns at Being Broody

Motherhood is Universal

Musical Nesting Boxes

Broody Patches

Growing Pains

Broody Strategies

3 Broody Hens

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