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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 16 2010 : 5:39:33 PM
I was out egg hunting just now and went in the milk room. I saw a hen in a box and looked in. It's the box I had swept up some broken glass (some pretty big pieces too) and left it on the shelf. That silly hen had about 8 eggs on that glass and she was sitting on top of them. One egg was broken and there was a piece of glass standing up that she was sitting on. That is pretty much a very determined little broody hen for sure.
Ya'll are gonna hate me but I took all the eggs and threw them away and the box too. They were only a few days in so I don't feel like a murderer. But I just can't handle any more chicks. The hens hatched 16 all together and there are just 8 left. And this hen is one that hatched the first 2. Her one surviving chick looks to be a little hen but she has nothing to do with it anymore.
Has anyone had a hen so determined it sat on a glass nest?
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
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| natesgirl |
Posted - Jul 16 2010 : 6:00:24 PM
Not on glass, but on ice. I was told to litterally cool her jets and put bags if ice in the box she insists on sittin in. So I did, she sat in there for 3 hours while I worked in the yard on that big ole bag of ice! She's not layin any eggs, but she'll sit on a pebble if she can find one! I just gave up and let her sit. We have no rooster and she won't lay no matter what we do, but she's so friendly, so I'll keep her around till we're ready to get a rooster and hatch some out. I've just decided to keep her for our own personal brooder hen.
Farmgirl Sister #1438
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| 1badmamawolf |
Posted - Jul 16 2010 : 5:57:19 PM
When i was a kid, I had a white leghorn as a pet, and when I would sit down on the ground, with my legs crossed, she would sit in the middle and lay her egg. My Mama, always warned me, some day shes gonna get upset when her nest gets up and walks away with her egg, she never did, and I think if she had, I would have stayed sitting there on the ground,lol.
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