BYC Café

[pennyJo1960]

We are suppose to have rain later but the sun is out just now.. Still petty cool here had to bring my winter coat out

 

[aart]

Oh, Yeah..... she's 'clucky' alright.
Was doing that low cluckcluckcluckcluckcluck(ticking bomb) as soon as I walked into the shed,
more than before.
Put her on the coop floor and she made a beeline for a nest.
Back into the crate.

 

[LaFleche]

We are suppose to have rain later but the sun is out just now.. Still petty cool here had to bring my winter coat out

Winter is lurking just round the next corner...

 

[pennyJo1960]

Great fun with her odd but have not had a broody out of the main coop

 

[Shadrach]

Okay, true confessions time.
Who else allows their pin cushion molters to hide in the nest boxes for the night?

Me
I've got three in boxes who are moulting and would normally perch and one properly broody.

 

[LaFleche]

Me
I've got three in boxes who are moulting and would normally perch and one properly broody.

Broody and moulting tops it !

 

[Shadrach]

Bout spit coffee!
Have broken several pullets just by tossing them out of nest multiple times a day.
Didn't want to do that here so she's crated and will probably let her out for a walk near roost time this evening, then crate her again if she doesn't roost.

I put them on the roost bar at night if they are still sitting on an empty nest at dusk. It mostly works. I get a few that go back to the nest site and wait hoping one of their tribe will come along and lay an egg if they've switched off. Otherwise some just lay an egg and sit on that.

 

[Shadrach]

Broody and moulting tops it !

It would, but it isn't the case. Bad grammer on my part probably. The broody isn't moulting.

 

[LaFleche]

It would, but it isn't the case. Bad grammer on my part probably. The broody isn't moulting.

Some of mine get confused every autumn and cannot decide whether they want to get broody or rather start moulting.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Oh, Yeah..... she's 'clucky' alright.
Was doing that low cluckcluckcluckcluckcluck(ticking bomb) as soon as I walked into the shed,
more than before.
Put her on the coop floor and she made a beeline for a nest.
Back into the crate.

Not to laugh at your pain in the arse, but the ticking bomb struck me as funny