Recent content by Susanna329

So glad your almost catastrophe worked out in the end! I had a happy ending as well. My little Welsummer hatched 3 of 3 eggs last Thursday! And of course their colouring is all Australorp, like their dad....so I won't know the sex for months. Dang!! I'm enjoying my first chicks SO much. Thank...

@Redhead Rae, I would be so heartbroken to cull him! He's been such a gentle rooster since we got him in the spring (at 2 yrs old, I think). My broody isolated herself under the milking bench in the goat shed and I've put up hardware cloth around it to keep both chickens and goats out. So he...

@Redhead Rae, I'm so grateful you said that, about taking your girl off the nest once a day!! My little Welsummer hen was on her first nest for 4 days since last Wed and I was sure she wasn't getting up. A couple of friends told me she was probably either getting up and I wasn't seeing her or...

OK, this little hen is really keeping me guessing! We cleaned the goat shed this morning and when I saw that she'd laid the last egg in a new spot away from the first 3, I went ahead and collected the eggs and moved the hay from under the bench. When she went in there to lay this afternoon, she...

I think you may be right, aart. I put an extra egg into her nest yesterday and she started laying in a spot about a foot away, still under the bench. She was in there all afternoon, but I think she is "lounging" as you say. I don't think she is broody after all. :(

Thanks aart! In answer to your questions - Yes, the coop is 25 sq ft and I only have 3 chickens in it including her. It functioned well this past winter, with the addition of some pcv roof panels over the mesh and can hold 3-5 more. I may also be building a full coop in September. Yes, I can...

Hi Folks. I have a one year old Welsummer who I think is getting ready to sit some eggs in the goat shed, under the (unused) milking bench. She's just got 2 eggs so far, but she spends about half the day in there. It would be her first go (mine too!) and she's fairly well protected, out of reach...