Stella's Social Club

[Happy Chooks]

I have 2 more broodies Mary, so I still beat you with 8 broodies so far this year. One is my older OE hen who is an experienced broody. The other is my 5 1/2 year old hatchery light brahma who has never gone broody before, and she hasn't even been laying all summer.

I thought at first she may be on her way out, looked her over, nothing looked wrong. Then I went to close up last night and she was clucking at me.

So now I've got to decide if I'm going to trust her with some eggs. My OE hen already collected her own, 6 eggs with veining when I got home from my weekend away. If she would have waited, I would have given her a bunch of wellies to hatch.

 

[The Sheriff]

I have 2 more broodies Mary, so I still beat you with 8 broodies so far this year. One is my older OE hen who is an experienced broody. The other is my 5 1/2 year old hatchery light brahma who has never gone broody before, and she hasn't even been laying all summer.

I thought at first she may be on her way out, looked her over, nothing looked wrong. Then I went to close up last night and she was clucking at me.

So now I've got to decide if I'm going to trust her with some eggs.

Give the girl some eggs for crying out loud!

My OE hen already collected her own, 6 eggs with veining when I got home from my weekend away. If she would have waited, I would have given her a bunch of wellies to hatch.

Then you should have stayed home to supervise!

 

[The Sheriff]

My broody is off this morning.

She's a weird one for sure. I will gladly and graciously concede the title of Miss Most Broodies to you!

 

[Happy Chooks]

My broody is off this morning.

She's a weird one for sure. I will gladly and graciously concede the title of Miss Most Broodies to you!

I don't want any more broodies! My coop is busting at the seams now!

And depending on when my OE started sitting, she could be hatching while I'm not here.

 

[mlm Mike]

So no eggs for the White Rock? (I wouldn't give her Pavlov. eggs)

I think I'm only on broody number 6, so Kelly has me beat, I don't think I'd make a good Miss Most Broodies anyways.

The free ranging peafowl adventure has ended. Suddenly they started crossing the road and hanging out at the neighbors (they didn't mind), but we are afraid they could cause an accident crossing the road, for some reason they walk or fly a few feet off the ground to cross. DW and I eventually were about to catch them yesterday, for now we set up some kennel panels in the garage, if the rain ever goes away we'll set something larger up outside.

 

[Happy Chooks]

So no eggs for the White Rock? (I wouldn't give her Pavlov. eggs)

I think I'm only on broody number 6, so Kelly has me beat, I don't think I'd make a good Miss Most Broodies anyways.

The free ranging peafowl adventure has ended. Suddenly they started crossing the road and hanging out at the neighbors (they didn't mind), but we are afraid they could cause an accident crossing the road, for some reason they walk or fly a few feet off the ground to cross. DW and I eventually were about to catch them yesterday, for now we set up some kennel panels in the garage, if the rain ever goes away we'll set something larger up outside.

Aren't you funny.

Surely Kathy has me beat on broodies. (I hope)

At least the peafowl are still alive. I would have paid money to watch you catch them.

 

[mlm Mike]

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Catching them could have been a lot worse. The first idea was to open the sliding door to my office and see if they would come in. I think this would have worked eventually because they would come about half way in. Then it started to cloud up, they usually go under our back porch to get out of the rain, so we took some poultry netting and wrapped about a third of the porch, hoping we could finish when/if they went under the porch. That worked, and we were able to contain them under the porch. Now the fun part, getting them out. I pushed them in the net with a long stick then we could grab them as they became slightly tangled in the netting. This worked for all but the last one. The last one, my wife crawled under the porch and chased the peacock to the edge and I was able to grab him.

 

[holm25]

Catching them could have been a lot worse. The first idea was to open the sliding door to my office and see if they would come in. I think this would have worked eventually because they would come about half way in. Then it started to cloud up, they usually go under our back porch to get out of the rain, so we took some poultry netting and wrapped about a third of the porch, hoping we could finish when/if they went under the porch. That worked, and we were able to contain them under the porch. Now the fun part, getting them out. I pushed them in the net with a long stick then we could grab them as they became slightly tangled in the netting. This worked for all but the last one. The last one, my wife crawled under the porch and chased the peacock to the edge and I was able to grab him.

 

[holm25]

Only one of our hens is broody but she has all those chicks to brood.

 

[1muttsfan]

I would have liked to see video of the peacock trapping event.

My only broody, a previously successful silkie, apparently gave it up in the last week - and my chicken sitter over the weekend was collecting eggs and scooped her last 2 up accidentally. And gave them away to someone to eat

. I told her to warn anyone she gave eggs to to crack them into a little bowl before using them.