Category / broody hens

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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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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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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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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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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