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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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 3Won’t somebody rescue me!They sit all day and growl and squackThey do not leave to take a walkFluffed out upon the nest they sitTail feathers spanned to throw a fitNo Silkie eggs that they protectNo Silkie eggs for us to collectInvisible are the eggs they seeBroody hens, I’ve got 3 -Tilly’s Nest I am…

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