Granny's gone and done it again

[campingshaws]

 

Haven't yet, but I send them on their way to auction or somewhere else. I don't keep bad birds. Except Lagertha, and when she's broody I move her to the house so no one accidentally gets to her.


I don't want my farm to be the reason that a kid develops a fear of something. I let the campers/visitors decide if they want to help with food and water or handle the animals. If not, they can pick eggs. Or sit on the picnic table. I only keep the hens and roos that tolerate being handled, and the farm. My honas are a separate matter, but Lagertha went broody in the layer coop last summer and bit a guy before I could move her.

Oh yes, I forgot you have an open farm there. That is great. I knew nothing of Broodys til last summer. I just sequestered mine. Figured it was normal. She was protecting her eggs.

for the most part think broody hens tend to be protective

Right. Just like any mother animals. But I want my hens to trust me, just like you need your mother dogs to trust you. Lagertha is the meanest broody I've ever had. Everyone else has been all bark, no bite. And even if they don't mind me, I've seen them give a sound whooping to flock mates who got too close.

Breed specific can be dead., incubation thread is was too much jibber jabber for me. Of course that's what I am doing now. Jibber jabbering. Maybe I will go annoy them

New member posts are a good place to get posts. You just make them feel welcome and point them in the right directions for info.

 

[Dannachic]

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yes..she couldn't talk yesterday for crying..

 

[Kiki]

i really don't know about the surgery,he is full of life and doesn't hurt any.just a sweet 4 yr old..

Hopefully it will be something easy for his little body and he is able to recover really fast each time.

 

[Kiki]

yes..she couldn't talk yesterday for crying..

I could not imagine that stress..
Poor momma.
Send her hugs from all of us here.
(you too!)

 

[Dannachic]

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i hope so too..that surgery is hard for adults..

 

[Dannachic]

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thank you Kiki

 

[Kiki]

i hope so too..that surgery is hard for adults..

My boss at the time....had to have heart surgery.
They had given him two options...something to do with a pacemaker.

I think one choice was to have to go to the doctor once a month for the rest of his life to "do something" to the pace maker each month ..
or
Have his chest cracked open again in ten years...

He didn't want to mess with having to go to the doctor each month so...he chose option two.
He sold his company...packed up and moved to Panama thinking he wouldn't make it 10 years. (He was a big time scuba diver and the waters there are lovely)

Last year he had to move back to the states to have the surgery again....much much harder on him this time around...he wasn't a spring chicken the first time around but this time was way worse. He wishes now that he would have chose option 1.

 

[Dannachic]

I was out with the chickens yesterday,,a man stopped and ask could he buy some of them..i said no but if i have any roosters when they get big nuff to tell he can have them..he said he would drop off fertile dominique eggs for me to hatch..i told him i had some coming soon..i took his number in case i ever what to hatch again..

 

[Dannachic]

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sorry to hear than.my GGS'bone sticks out where they did surgery when he was born,it was hard picking him up when he was a baby and afraid we would hurt him..they cracked that little chest too. my BIL has a pacemaker..they check it every month on his phone..I don't know how they do that unless he holds phone on it and they pick up the signals..

 

[Dannachic]

I got to fix DH some breakfast bbl..