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TexasSam said:
Okay question honest opinions.
Do you think it would be okay to ship chickens on Monday this close to Christmas from Alabama to Texas
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Probably . We have actually been getting shipments faster than they say they will get here! We had 2 delivery trucks here at the same time today.
 
TexasSam said:
Okay question honest opinions.
Do you think it would be okay to ship chickens on Monday this close to Christmas from Alabama to Texas
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:confused: I've never shipped a chicken before... What are the temps likely to be next week? It has been really nice in New Mexico lately; it will probably be much worse in January. And I have read that the beginning of the week is the best time to ship :idunno
 
TexasSam said:
Can't you just take the eggs out from under her
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Yeah but as Cap said, she'll keep sitting, eating and not laying. I had one Dominique and a Dom/buff cross go broody this spring. Even though I didn't have any eggs I really wanted to hatch (the only mature roo I had at the time was a leghorn cross I kept around to guard the hens and maintain order) I let the Dom/Buff hatch out some eggs. She was a lovely broody. She squealed when I touched her, but was a determined sitter and never offered to bite me. The Dominique was another story. She nest hopped and tried to take chunks out of my hand. I REFUSE to let a broody that attacks me have eggs. I've heard that they tend to become more protective when the eggs hatch. Plus, with the nest hopping, I doubt she would have been able to hatch a clutch anyway. So I broke her, it took FOREVER.
 
Redhead Rae said:
If you can't or don't want to hatch eggs, broodies can be a PAIN though.
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Thank you.
I try to be good hearted about it. But it is a little bit of a pain because I have to watch two of the other girls who are downright mean to her. One will walk by like she's not paying any attention to her at all, then at the last second she'll grab her by the wing and try to fling her into the pool!
I swear they want to drown her.
Those two birds who aren't mean at all EXCEPT when Dory is broody are SICK. TO. DEATH of the clucking, and the growling, and the screeching, and the turkeyfluffingbuttupintheair
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@TexasSam , I'm counting on my fingers now.
She reached pol around the Fourth of July. Laid for a month, went broody. Except I didn't understand what was going on until a week or so into it because I didn't know it could happen to such a young bird.
That interrupted laying for another 6 weeks or more.
Broody again mid October- broke that one in ten days with her in the house during the day over top of the ac vent in the bathroom.
Another interruption... might have gotten back to laying for a couple of weeks (and she was SOOOOOO happy with herself!)
Then BOOM right back to where we started from!
 

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