Author Topic: One chicken going missing (Read 5561 times)

Marches Farmer · « **Reply #15 on:** August 26, 2015, 11:01:02 am »

What breed? My neighbour had some of my Dorkings but one was a wanderer and found all sorts of odd places to lay in. The fox got her on Monday, though - in mid afternoon.

Bionic · « **Reply #16 on:** August 26, 2015, 12:28:08 pm »

Kimbo, you were wrong.
I found her this morning and she was sitting on 8 eggs. She put up a real fight when I tried to get her off. OH had to put on his gauntlet gloves and now she has gone off in a huff.

The eggs seem to be fresh, according to the water test, so I am going to crack them separately and if they smell ok, freeze them.

Kimbo · « **Reply #17 on:** August 26, 2015, 04:39:34 pm »

Hey I was close though!
Just like my CLB. She tried to eat me and son when we removed her eggs and she too had a huff for a day! Arent they funny!

Bionic · « **Reply #18 on:** August 26, 2015, 04:51:50 pm »

MF, she is a barred wyandotte and a little madam too

Marches Farmer · « **Reply #19 on:** August 26, 2015, 05:12:34 pm »

We have Wyandottes too - not a breed that often goes broody in my experience, but right little madams ....yes.

Kimbo · « **Reply #20 on:** August 26, 2015, 06:06:17 pm »

I have 2 Laced Wyandottes that I intend to sell when I finally work out what gender the Blue Laced one is! They are both thugs. I hatched them and I handle my chicks and young chooks every day but these 2 are really nasty, pecky monsters. They are gorgeous but not at all nice-natured. The others in the hatch, including a cockerel, were lovely sweet birds

bumpkins · « **Reply #21 on:** August 29, 2015, 01:49:07 pm »

I have a Silver Pencilled Wyandotte who goes broody roughly every 3 weeks and is also an absolute madam! It takes me about 4 days to break her and during that time she behaves like the hen from hell - screeching at the top of her voice and even jumping up to beak me in the legs! I just can't get rid of her though as I love her to bits!

waterbuffalofarmer · « **Reply #22 on:** August 29, 2015, 05:47:20 pm »

I had a Wyandotte hen which was a fantastic mother, always reared her chicks well and once stood up to a fox, he never even tried to eat her but ran away.

When my Buff Sussex went broody I used to lift her and she only ever pecked me once, until I told her off in a stern voice, and she never did it again. I'm glad you found your hen though. My two buff Sussex went missing in a storm, I found one and gave up trying to find the other. I looked casually out of the window, two days after she went missing, and I saw her running across the field of cows, so I searchedn the hedgerow, where I saw her disappear into, and eventually managed to flush her out of a bush, with my sheepdogs. She was missing her comb when I found her and it never grew back.