It's come round to that time again. Over a week ago I started to collect eggs and store them to wait for a broody hen and it wasn't long before I had to wait. A couple of days ago one decided it was time to go broody, by this time I'd collected 9 eggs (a couple of days I'd put aside two not just one). So I have a hen setting nine eggs right now, never had that many eggs under a hen at a time before! Usually if there was a broody hen I just put whatever eggs had been laid in a 24h period, which is usually less than 9!
So, they're due on 23rd March, there or thereabouts. And as per usual it doesn't come soon enough! I get so impatient. I sometimes wonder if I'll ever get over the excitment, but I think if I did that I wouldn't have chicken any more!
Well here's the hen in charge of the eggs, Hazel. We bought her three years ago and last year she co-mothered a chick with another hen. Caring and formidable (she's ferocious if her chicks are approached!) I think she'll do well this year.
So, they're due on 23rd March, there or thereabouts. And as per usual it doesn't come soon enough! I get so impatient. I sometimes wonder if I'll ever get over the excitment, but I think if I did that I wouldn't have chicken any more!
Well here's the hen in charge of the eggs, Hazel. We bought her three years ago and last year she co-mothered a chick with another hen. Caring and formidable (she's ferocious if her chicks are approached!) I think she'll do well this year.
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