I’ll start by getting this out of the way... I’m one of those house chicken people. Okay? Awesome. Now...
My bird’s name is Enzo. She’s a 4 1/2 year old MGB (possibly a cross - not sure) who, despite hating other birds with a fiery passion, gets broody as hell, and tends to get sad when she figures out nothing is happening underneath her.
After a few years of this, we decided she’s taking this whole mommy thing seriously enough to try putting some fertile eggs under her. I was pretty sure she would stick with it, but you never know.
After a very short look on Craigslist, we found someone selling fertile eggs from her mixed flock. What caught my attention, was that the only two roosters in the flock were very special breeds. There were about 12 hens in the flock - two of those hens were of those same two breeds I was excited about, so we had a slim chance of getting a purebred. We didn’t care what they’d turn out to be, because all chickens are awesome, right? Right. So, we picked five random eggs out of the bowl, paid the nice lady $5, and put them under my favorite bird in the whole wide world.
**Edit** Only two of the five eggs were actually fertile.
Then this happened...
Here they are at 3 weeks old. What are the odds???
My bird’s name is Enzo. She’s a 4 1/2 year old MGB (possibly a cross - not sure) who, despite hating other birds with a fiery passion, gets broody as hell, and tends to get sad when she figures out nothing is happening underneath her.
After a few years of this, we decided she’s taking this whole mommy thing seriously enough to try putting some fertile eggs under her. I was pretty sure she would stick with it, but you never know.
After a very short look on Craigslist, we found someone selling fertile eggs from her mixed flock. What caught my attention, was that the only two roosters in the flock were very special breeds. There were about 12 hens in the flock - two of those hens were of those same two breeds I was excited about, so we had a slim chance of getting a purebred. We didn’t care what they’d turn out to be, because all chickens are awesome, right? Right. So, we picked five random eggs out of the bowl, paid the nice lady $5, and put them under my favorite bird in the whole wide world.
**Edit** Only two of the five eggs were actually fertile.
Then this happened...
Here they are at 3 weeks old. What are the odds???
