Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BDutch]

Could you post that rooster picture on to me. I think it would look rather good on my wall.

Serious?
If you give me your email address in a personal message I can send the photo by mail (max quality).
Even better: if I get back home I can straighten and enhance it with Photoshop (next week). You can send it to a poster print shop after you get it.

 

[fluffycrow]

I've not heard that one before.
It's complete nonsense.

I've heard it too many times, at this point. Can't wrap my head around how it could be true. Everything else aside, Cruella would freak TF out if I were to take her eggs and give her new ones right when she sat. She doesn't like me close to her at all

 

[no fly zone]

Miss Rizzle (Skeksis's first grandchild) is broody.

 

[Shadrach]

Miss Rizzle (Skeksis's first grandchild) is broody.

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Do you know how many eggs she's got?

 

[BDutch]

because the embryos in the old eggs she periodically sat on will have died. If that were the case, wouldn't that mean that every chicken left to make a nest and hatch chicks on her own accord would be unsuccessful.

I think Shad is right. Solemnly this is not making any sense. The eggs from ‘pre-brooding’ wont die except if they are really old.

Lots of people had broodies who hatched chicks on a secret spot. Or didnt change eggs in a nestbox. Its natural behaviour to sit a few hours every day before commitment. Very normal before a hen gets seriously broody and stays on the nest almost non stop.

The outcome is possibly not the best you can achieve if you don’t change the eggs, but the embryos wont die in the pre-broody stage when the hen sat on the eggs for a few hours, for a few days.

My sensible broodies and broodies all over the world sit a few hours for a couple of days, before serious /non stop commitment. And they wouldn't do so if it would kill the embryo.

 

[fluffycrow]

I think Shad is right. Solemnly this is not making any sense. The eggs from ‘pre-brooding’ wont die except if they are really old.

Lots of people had broodies who hatched chicks on a secret spot. Or didnt change eggs in a nestbox. Its natural behaviour to sit a few hours every day before commitment. Very normal before a hen gets seriously broody and stays on the nest almost non stop.

The outcome is possibly not the best you can achieve if you don’t change the eggs, but the embryos wont die in the pre-broody stage when the hen sat on the eggs for a few hours, for a few days.

My sensible broodies and broodies all over the world sit a few hours for a couple of days, before serious /non stop commitment. And they wouldn't do so if it would kill the embryo.

I agree with both of you. That has been my argument all along. If pre-brooding/sitting killed the embryos, then the chicken as a species wouldn't be able to live. Many ranging hens, and their wild ancestors make secluded nests that they pre-brood before committing. It doesn't make sense to me for the above to be lethal to the embryo

 

[no fly zone]

Do you know how many eggs she's got?

I think none. She's just broody.

 

[Shadrach]

Serious?
If you give me your email address in a personal message I can send the photo by mail (max quality).
Even better: if I get back home I can straighten and enhance it with Photoshop (next week). You can send it to a poster print shop after you get it.

No, not serious but thank you very much for the offer.

 

[Shadrach]

I agree with both of you. That has been my argument all along. If pre-brooding/sitting killed the embryos, then the chicken as a species wouldn't be able to live. Many ranging hens, and their wild ancestors make secluded nests that they pre-brood before committing. It doesn't make sense of me for the above to be lethal to the embryo

It seems that there may be a misunderstanding of what people mean by pre brooding. That's the only rational explanation that comes to mind.

 

[fluffycrow]

It seems that there may be a misunderstanding of what people mean by pre brooding. That's the only rational explanation that comes to mind.

That has to be it, as is the case with many subjects that don't have a clear definition. In my eyes, pre-prooding is when a female spends extra time in the nest (ranging from a few minutes to a couple of hours), before returning to the group. This may be followed with the typical broody sounds, and with the bird puffing her feathers a little more than usual. I should probably mention at this point that I would *expect* the bird in question to not warm the eggs the same as a full fledged broody does, potentially having an underdeveloped broody patch as well. This is an assumption on my part however, as I have never checkef for this. If one's definition of pre-brooding is a hen that spends all day in the nest box, actively brooding, leaving at night to roost with the group, then the outcome would be different