Lmbo as a huge turtle lover that is too funny!!!!! Makes me want to try thatYes, mama hen will mother just about anything. A hen of my parents sat on a turtle egg until it hatched. She was confused as could be when her ugly snapper baby went into the water. She ran back and forth calling to it. She kept it up for several days.
Another hen sat on a nest of kildeer eggs. Mama kildeer was really upset by being kicked off her nest. Mama hen lost her babies when they hatched, mama kildeer rounded them back up.
And a hen sat on some wild mallard eggs. She brought the ducklings back from the pond to the chicken yard, and they stayed there for a few weeks. But the babies wandered around the yard with mama until one day they spotted a puddle. They hopped in and splashed and quacked and no matter how much mama clucked at them, they weren't coming out until they were done. And then a few weeks later they found the pond and left their mama.
While these are all sad stories for the mama hen, it in no way discouraged them from raising more babies!


