MJ's little flock

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks

 

[Shadrach]

I think I have joined the broody club.

Pepper has been in the nesting box for the last 5 hours fluffed up like a fluffy, angry pancake.
There were 3 eggs under her when I checked, including one of her own.

Anyway, here is today's haul. After the two weird eggs that Edwina laid yesterday, her egg today looks perfectly normal.

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(notice my heavily edited desk where i have moved all the mess out of shot. )

Will she be your first broody hen?

 

[Grammy60]

Good evening everyone

 

[RoyalChick]

I think I have joined the broody club.

Pepper has been in the nesting box for the last 5 hours fluffed up like a fluffy, angry pancake.
There were 3 eggs under her when I checked, including one of her own.

Anyway, here is today's haul. After the two weird eggs that Edwina laid yesterday, her egg today looks perfectly normal.

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(notice my heavily edited desk where i have moved all the mess out of shot. )

Beautiful! And I love the daffodil place mat.
Also appreciate the strategy of moving the mess out of shot - definitely my strategy for every day activity!

 

[BY Bob]

I think I have joined the broody club.

Pepper has been in the nesting box for the last 5 hours fluffed up like a fluffy, angry pancake.
There were 3 eggs under her when I checked, including one of her own.

Anyway, here is today's haul. After the two weird eggs that Edwina laid yesterday, her egg today looks perfectly normal.

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(notice my heavily edited desk where i have moved all the mess out of shot. )

So beautifully displayed. You also have a really nice assortment of eggs as well. I'm glad Edwina has laid a normal egg to settle that anxiety.

 

[BY Bob]

Aha! I just saw Pepper running by my window. Taking her eggs away combined with the lure of free range time must have been too much for her!

Free Range can do that!

 

[BY Bob]

Ivy has not come off the nest at all today she must be hungry by now. Maybe she'll get up early tomorrow.

She allowed me to remove two eggs: Mary's and Peggy's.

For what it's worth, if Mary lays an egg tomorrow she will have regained the laying honours with 13 eggs in 13 days.

I would not have predicted Mary beating out those youngins again. Kudos to you Mary.

 

[MaryJanet]

I would not have predicted Mary beating out those youngins again. Kudos to you Mary.

I thought she was getting ready for retirement!

 

[MaryJanet]

Will she be your first broody hen?

I think for sure ACM would have had broodies before because she's had chickens for years. Ivy is my third. The first was Mary, the second was Peggy. For them, I followed conventional wisdom and lifted off the nest and onto the roosts at night. But Peggy fought hard and I got the idea I was doing her a cruelty. So I'm trying to find a gentler way now Ivy's broody.

 

[MaryJanet]

Mary did it! She took the blue ribbon from Ivy with 13 eggs in 13 days. I guess she's making up for all that time off.