Cameo Baby Peahen

[Kirkland1610]

I know you do. I watch you on FB

do you incubate all your eggs or let the Mama’s hatch some? Sweet Pea came from a bunch of eggs that were scattered all over pen that I decided to incubate. Young hen and she never did build a nest.

 

[Pennys Mama]

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Holy smokes, Batman!
You don't piddle with incubating, you SERIOUSLY INCUBATE!!!

Did that hen hatch poults or is she just poult~sitting?

I mean "peachicks" and "peachick~sitting"...

 

[casportpony]

Did that hen hatch poults or is she just poult~sitting?

Those are peachicks!

 

[Pennys Mama]

Those are peachicks!

Oops! Show my ignorance right off the bat! Those little ones looked like my 3 poults.

 

[casportpony]

Oops! Show my ignorance right off the bat! Those little ones looked like my 3 poults.

They do look a lot alike!

 

[KsKingBee]

do you incubate all your eggs or let the Mama’s hatch some? Sweet Pea came from a bunch of eggs that were scattered all over pen that I decided to incubate. Young hen and she never did build a nest.

We incubate until the second week of July then let the hens that want to set have them. Late season chicks are hard to get through the winter but those with moms just do better. The grow faster and mom keeps them warm. The chicken hens are not quite as loyal to the chicks and usually give up on them after a few weeks but some will take good care of them although they teach them bad habits like scratching and eating things I really don't want my peachicks to eat.
The last pic is of my Sweepea, she raised two of the three IB split Purple cock chicks.

 

[TwoCrows]

We incubate until the second week of July then let the hens that want to set have them. Late season chicks are hard to get through the winter but those with moms just do better. The grow faster and mom keeps them warm. The chicken hens are not quite as loyal to the chicks and usually give up on them after a few weeks but some will take good care of them although they teach them bad habits like scratching and eating things I really don't want my peachicks to eat.
The last pic is of my Sweepea, she raised two of the three IB split Purple cock chicks.
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[Mimi13]

I enjoy helping when I can. We watch out for our friends.
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Love me some GP’s too!

 

[Mimi13]

Nice poke salad bush!!! You got eggs to go with that, right?

Yum! That was a staple when I was growing up. Poke salat and scrambled eggs.

 

[Pennys Mama]

They do look a lot alike!

They're both beautiful! Right?

Yum! That was a staple when I was growing up. Poke salat and scrambled eggs.

I love it still! We have a 2 mile dirt road to get to our house with poke all along the road, in the fence row.