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Sun Jun-19-11 01:26 PM
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One of my hens hatched two chicks; sorry, I don't have pictures, |
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but take my word for it - mother hen, chicks, you could watch them all day!
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Sun Jun-19-11 01:28 PM
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1. I had 4 eggs for breakfast |
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Grilled chicken sounds good for dinner.
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Sun Jun-19-11 01:33 PM
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2. Only 2 - that is too few for a chicken |
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Sun Jun-19-11 02:31 PM
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5. For some reason, my hens have poor success hatching eggs. |
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I suspect that the other ladies keep laying their eggs in the active nests, so the older eggs get buried or rolled to the outside and eaten by the other hens.
I tried setting up about ten nesting boxes for them this year, and for a while I had five broody hens. Two of them ended up sitting on no eggs at all!
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Sun Jun-19-11 02:52 PM
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8. My grandmother always placed a white porcelain doorknob in the |
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nests/boxes for the settin' hens. I have no idea what purpose they served. They were away from the hen house - in the barn, the implement sheds and the tool house.
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Sun Jun-19-11 02:17 PM
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3. Get thee a smartphone! |
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You can take pictures all day long of any chicks that hit your fancy! ;-)
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Sun Jun-19-11 02:28 PM
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Is that what you do? :evilfrown:
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Sun Jun-19-11 02:33 PM
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6. Yes. My smartphone is my portal... |
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Sun Jun-19-11 04:15 PM
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9. Quick pics of my doggies? |
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Sun Jun-19-11 06:03 PM
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10. Yeah, right. I read what you wrote... |
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