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[alroy82]

good friday chicks. Mom is grey and dad is my avatar. Toppy asil grey . This clutch is right at 3/4 grey 1/16 toppy 1/8 asil

 

[sdm111]

Congrats

 

[sdm111]

Gonna do a little test.run with the small pot today for the big pot Sunday I have a tendency to add a lil too much cayenne and I don't want to over heat it lol

And yes I'm moving it off my deck

 

[JShubin]

Havent got a picture yet but my best hen just hatched 17-20 chicks in the neighbors yard. Need to get her and her clutch before they start making big mess/racket.

(old pic)

 

[sdm111]

Havent got a picture yet but my best hen just hatched 17-20 chicks in the neighbors yard. Need to get her and her clutch before they start making big mess/racket. (old pic)

you know where she's nesting

 

[JShubin]

you know where she's nesting

Not exactly, but it already happened 4 weeks ago with a different hen. I have an idea but I dont have a direct line of sight from my yard.

I tried to go capture the hen yesterday when he wasnt home, and I saw he had a big pile of chick mash/crumbles on the ground for them. I couldnt capture her by myself, shes too bad ***.

 

[sdm111]

Wait till dark and find her or I heard of people putting stags on cords to catch freerange stags may work with a hen

 

[KF0002]

Havent got a picture yet but my best hen just hatched 17-20 chicks in the neighbors yard. Need to get her and her clutch before they start making big mess/racket.

(old pic)

That is awesome! We have had 2 hens go broody within the past week, a Radio hen and a Roundhead. We weren't raising from those hens so I just replaced their eggs with some we were going to put in the incubator. Saves me some work. I gave them each 8 since our temps here are still cold at night. Both hens are now sitting on Penny/Radio eggs. Plus I plan on giving them each a few more chicks from the incubator I set at the same time. They are gonna be busy girls. Broody hens make me happy!

 

[JShubin]

Wait till dark and find her or I heard of people putting stags on cords to catch freerange stags may work with a hen

Yeah dark is good. I just wish it wasnt the neighbors yard. I dont want to just jump back there without permission, but the guy is never home it seems. (I can see his truck when he is.)

 

[KF0002]

Wait till dark and find her or I heard of people putting stags on cords to catch freerange stags may work with a hen

The only way we can find a free ranging broody's nest usually is wait til you see her come off to eat at feeding time and then follow her back. It is easier said than done though.. they are elusive little buggers and will try to shake you off their trail. lol They are the best nest hiders..

The stag thing works though. You take a stag out of a pen on the other side of the property a free ranging stag isn't used to seeing and put him out in a drop pen or on a tie cord close to where the free ranging stag hangs around, and you can catch the free ranging stag when they go to fighting. Works like a charm.