Wow!
Day three of our Girl's new broody behaviour.. We have decided to call here Mama. I had to kick her out of her box and shoo her outside. We have been making a hot mash of their layer crumbles which they love in the winter, and she immediately went-RAN to it and ate. Good thing. Then she would scratch around the dirt (warmest winter in memory here) and eat it.. getting minerals I guess.. she's all puffed up and kinda proud.. like she has a new job to do.. the other girls seem to know something is different and give here space(respect?). On the way back to the henhouse she did the darndest thing.. she did the Tom Turkey dance... as she approached the other Girls, she puffed up, put her wings out and forward, and spread her tail out in a circle! Kinda had a little show going on! Anyway, after about 5 minutes, she went right back to her box, and sat. There are two eggs in there under her.. it is ok for her to be off the eggs for 5 minutes during a mild winter? As we do have other hens laying fertilised eggs(we think, due to Wally being in there with them and doing his thing) we are hoping to get warm eggs just laid and put them under her.. we will candle the eggs in a few days.. This is exciting! Our ranch CO-OP store here has chick days in early April. We have plans to expand our flock to 30, and are going to get 10 more chicks(more breeds!-all in the class of layers 'very good to excellent') but maybe we will not have to get that many, we'll have our own... Exciting!
