MJ's little flock

[MaryJanet]

I do love your wild child!

She's ok I guess. For an accidental child killer

No, she's endearing sometimes.

 

[Shadrach]

Lots of reading time on the bus I guess. You can always get a car some time

I don't do cars. Trucks or motorbikes. I may get a motorbike but tbh I'm quite content with my free travel bus and train pass.

 

[MaryJanet]

Or she could be like Belle and just settle down easily in a new box
Tegan’s been sitting for a while though so hopefully moving her will be enough

I wonder how it went. Hopefully Loz will fill us in.

 

[MaryJanet]

I don't do cars. Trucks or motorbikes. I may get a motorbike but tbh I'm quite content with my free travel bus and train pass.

Free transportation is fabulous! I recall Dad got a lot of use from the public transport once he had his seniors card. He was always gadding about, bless him

 

[Shadrach]

If the new coop got here this week I was considering letting Belle do what you have let your ladies do with the barnyard bitsa eggs I could get from the farm a few blocks away where my girls came from.
It’s been hot here so I’ve been taking Belle out, she started plucking her chest feathers again yesterday when she was in there which tells me she’s as serious as the first time. The 2 other times she was a bit half arsed. 4 times since spring though, is that crazy or normal?!
I’m back at work friday and coop isn’t here so instead ive set up the cage for her tonight to try to coax her out of it.
I’ll think on the idea a bit longer, I’m not sure how emotionally resilient I am right now…or ever honestly, I’m a sook!

Sorry for the novel on your thread MJ! It helps to share with chicken folk, others don’t understand or care

Bitsa chicks and broody hens.
Four times a year is pushing it a bit. I think she wants to have a go.

 

[Shadrach]

By the way, I like reading long comments!

So do I.

 

[Shadrach]

Thank goodness for that.!

I frequently suffer from severe foot-in-mouth disease and only realize how something sounds when it's too late, if I realize at all...

Thank you for your patience, understanding, er dispensation? Any way, thanks!

A bit of foot in mouth is hardly a critical flaw.

 

[Shadrach]

I'm not blaming myself, merely reflecting on the possibilities.

I honestly don't think there's any blame to be laid anywhere. Things go wrong. That's nature.

I can see why people like using incubators.

I know someone has had a go at this later on in the thread.
Things go wrong with incubators to. I would never use an incubator unless I was working with endangered breeds and desperately needed chicks. Ime hens are far better at the job than any incubator. Plus, chicks hatched by hens have a proper upbringing and education, not to mention all the mother love and care and no matter how many people call themselves chicken mums etc the simple fact is there is no way to substitute for a hen as a mother.

 

[BY Bob]

And Peggy gets to be elevated above her peers!

No wonder she likes it so much

Absolutely. Look how I have trained the human.

 

[Shadrach]

So Sydney successfully hatching 3 out of 3 eggs was much more unusual than I thought. I never guessed how lucky her and I were.

I don't think it was unusual Bob. MJ has just been very unlucky. Out of all the broody hens I've watched sit and hatch I can't think of one that didn't hatch at least one chick and usually most of the eggs that were fertile. I have had hens hatch chicks that didn't survive long and hens abandon partially hatched chicks.
More frustrating is having a hen (usually a pullet or young hen, sit for say 15 days, get bored and leave the nest.