Weehopper
Songster
- Feb 26, 2015
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This year I had a real struggle with my game hen. I have no rooster. She didn't care. Went to setting anyway (not unusual for a game hen). Off in the brush. Didn't find her for two months! Got her off a very rotten nest. The stench was overpowering. Befor that I had gone ahead and bought 3 lovely, started Australorp pullets. I really thought Sis was a lost cause and would be food for some varment, at the time. Jump ahead a month or two. Caught Sis. Broke broodyness while the new girls began to worship her from outside her pen. Put her in the coop with the other three. She is boss. No surprise. What is surprising is the fact that, even though Sis asserts herself at feeding time, and makes the girls wait, she has started feeding them from her mouth, and tossing food out onto the ground as if they are chicks. She is not broody. She is laying again
