Broody hen put to good useBroody hen put to good useOne of my hens is almost constantly broody, so I decided to put her to good use, and gave her a separate house/run and some Pekin Bantam eggs from a friend.
She hatched 5 earlier this week, and they all seem to be going well so far [center][youtube]Nibzty903TA[/youtube][/center]
Re: Broody hen put to good usevery sweet, I love watching a hen raising chickies, much nicer than hatching with an incubator I think. Perhaps you could start a diary here so we can watch them growing up.
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Re: Broody hen put to good useThat video is wonderful - they are so cute and "mother" looks like she is doing a really good job. How nice to raise your own chicks - I hope they all do really well.
Re: Broody hen put to good useLovely video
I played it to Audrey who came out of broodiness a few days ago, the look on her face! She had her head cocked to one side listneing The Pink Ladies..Audrey,Ingrid-Bergman,Madeleline,Norma-Jean,Dora,Janice,Jo,Robyn,Chrissy and Joyce
The Peds…Mork,Mindy,Bell,Saphire & Vorky ,Blueped,Ginger,Ninger &Linky Sunny Clucker was ere July 12-21 2012 Sunny Clucker was ere July 6 2016 to Sept 9th 2017 Sunny Clucker is here , rehomed Aug 18th 2018/ Re: Broody hen put to good use
Now that's cruel. No chicks of her own and has to watch someone else's Dance caller. http://mo-dance-caller.blogspot.co.uk/p/what-i-do.html
Sunny Clucker enjoyed Folk music and song in mid-Cheshire Re: Broody hen put to good useThey're about 5 and a half months old now, and almost as big as their 'mum'
They're still in the same run for now, although we've all moved house since then, and the hybrids have a new run that I've just finished building [center][youtube]t6cr5QQaM[/youtube][/center]
Re: Broody hen put to good useLovely video. They are beautiful.
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Re: Broody hen put to good usegorgeous! It was a super friendly lavender pekin cockerel on a holiday that first made us think about getting our own chooks. Are you keeping the 2 boys?
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
--Immanuel Kant Re: Broody hen put to good useSo far no plans for the boys - or the girls!! If any friends were wanting them they could take all 5. It was good fun raising them and I might do more this year.
Found this old video. For future reference, 1" weldmesh is too big for young chicks. I added a couple of boards along the bottom right after that [center][youtube]7XDcTCpJvo8[/youtube][/center] Re: Broody hen put to good useOh, how sweet. Love that they're in the frying pan
Kath xx
Mum to my beautiful girls Lucy, Holly, Rosie, Hettie, Polly, Ruby, Lily, Penny, Gracie, Maisie, Molly, Evie and my gorgeous boy Toby RIP my beautiful Ranger, Roxy, Bluebelle, Poppy, Speckle, Daisy and Honey xxxx Re: Broody hen put to good useLovely videos.
I have a lot of broody's always popping out from under the hedges and I've used broody's to raise turkey poults because turkey mums are rubbish. ¸.•´¸.•*´¨) ¸.•*¨)✰
(¸.✰´¨(¸.✰ Manda Living our version of the Good Life with 1 dog (who feels like we're living with 4!), 1 cats, a few sheep and 11 chooks. Don't get your knickers in a knot..it solves nothing ~ just makes you walk funny
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