Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Rabbit season!

Seeing rabbits around is good for many reasons. Of course they are cute, but it also suggests that the foxes and the hawks still have food available other than my Princesses.

 

[cfonts]

Wow! That's exciting!

It's not very exciting since Kiko's eggs aren't fertilized I'm trying to look up ways to break a broody hen, since she's basically been sitting on invisible eggs since I've been collecting her eggs everyday.

Does she have a nest with eggs in somewhere?

Kiko has a nesting area, but her eggs aren't fertilized. I pull her eggs everyday and didn't realize she'd go broody so soon after laying her first egg. So she's been sitting on invisible eggs

 

[MaryJanet]

It's not very exciting since Kiko's eggs aren't fertilized I'm trying to look up ways to break a broody hen, since she's basically been sitting on invisible eggs since I've been collecting her eggs everyday.


Kiko has a nesting area, but her eggs aren't fertilized. I pull her eggs everyday and didn't realize she'd go broody so soon after laying her first egg. So she's been sitting on invisible eggs

Mary says Sit Happens.

She doesn't have eggs. But she sits ever so patiently.

I may get her some eggs next time, but not right now.

 

[Ldolan]

 

[Ldolan]

 

[cfonts]

Mary says Sit Happens.

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She doesn't have eggs. But she sits ever so patiently.

I may get her some eggs next time, but not right now.

Haha, I laughed when I read "SIT HAPPENS" <-- those words pretty much sums up how the last few days have been.

I am in the same predicament as you - Kiko doesn't have eggs to sit on either, but she also just sits patiently, determined to hatch these invisible eggs

Is this her first time being broody?

 

[MaryJanet]

Haha, I laughed when I read "SIT HAPPENS" <-- those words pretty much sums up how the last few days have been.

I am in the same predicament as you - Kiko doesn't have eggs to sit on either, but she also just sits patiently, determined to hatch these invisible eggs

Is this her first time being broody?

I was trying to make you laugh!

No, she's an old hand now. I leave her be. She gets herself up for food, drinks, dustbathing, etc. If she's still sitting at 22-23 days, I'll open up the little coop she's sitting in and wait patiently while she decides getting up might be the right course of action.

It's a natural process. She knows more about her needs than I do.

It's Saturday morning where we live, so she's starting her second full day.

 

[Ldolan]

Mary says Sit Happens.

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She doesn't have eggs. But she sits ever so patiently.

I may get her some eggs next time, but not right now.

What breed of chicken is that a black Cochin. Or a astralorp?

 

[MaryJanet]

What breed of chicken is that a black Cochin. Or a astralorp?

She's an Australorp.

And we live in Australia. So she's got the Orpington tail and big eyes that the American Australorps don't seem to have.

 

[MaryJanet]

Although it doesn't look like it from the photos I've shared above, she does actually have a neck