Author Topic: Early Christmas present!! (Read 2808 times)

dixie · « **on:** December 21, 2009, 01:03:33 pm »

One of our hens (this years hatch) decided to clear off everyday on her own, she wandered over the allotment, over the back fields etc, then never came back I thought a fox had got her

Went to empty the barrow on Saturday morning when I heard cheeping, on closer inspection there was my hen, on the otherside of the ditch amongst the hedgerow with 10 newly hatched chicks and 4 more pipping!!! A few inches of snow on the ground and minus 4deg !!! and opposite the prints of the fox that passes through
After clambering over barbed wire, trapsing through the ditch and cutting back the brambles I managed to get them into a box and re-house them in the shed!! sadly 5 died from the cold and the rest never hatched so she now has her 5 chicks to care for

sheila · « **Reply #1 on:** December 21, 2009, 03:42:51 pm »

Ah! merry christmas to them all.

northfifeduckling · « **Reply #2 on:** December 21, 2009, 05:38:18 pm »

What a silly bird to give it a go at this time of the year...what's up with her biorhythm

? I hope you'll manage to get the rest through this kind of weather! Looks like we might have a white Christmas this year

dixie · « **Reply #3 on:** December 21, 2009, 06:35:17 pm »

I suppose it was fairly mild when she decided to go broody, she was sat on 18 eggs!! her first time, maybe she got confused! they all snuggy in the shed so fingers crossed they make it!