Broody hen update 2
Posted: Sunday 13 July, 2008
From previous entries, you will know that we have a broody hen, rather unexpectedly. We have no cockerel at the moment, so I bought 12 eggs - 6 RIR and 6 Cuckoo Maran; just in case she got fed up, I put four (plus the ones of ours she'd already hijacked) under her and the remaining eight in the incubator. They were due to hatch on Friday. I noticed last week that the temperature in the incubator was low, so wasn't at all hopful of getting any chicks - Dan candled them and said two looked like they were full of chick.
Nothing Friday, nothing yesterday; I was going to switch the incubator off today. I awoke this morning at 6am to the sound of cheeping! One egg in the incubator has hatched! I will leave the incubator on for another 24 hours or so, just in case.
I have to confess, I made Dan get up and mow a patch of the lawn (at about 6.15am), so that the broody coop could go in sight of the kitchen window and be on short grass. I have put the chick under the broody hen - I hope (everything crossed) that she will accept him.
Well, either she will or she won't - I'll keep you posted.
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