The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Roxy on June 22, 2012, 12:56:02 am
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I have a lovely blue laced bantam. She decided to go broody and sit in a little hut down the field. Some of the other hens lay in there too. Every day I would put my hand under the bantam and get bitten!! and remove her egg, and also the hens eggs. In the end I left one bantam egg, but kept on removing the hen eggs from under her - tended to do it quick, to avoid a good pecking, and each day the bantam egg would get rolled about as I grabbed the other eggs.
I never imagined this one egg would hatch, given the treatment it had ....it would roll out of the nest as I grabbed the other eggs, and the bantam would push it back under her. Well, yesterday, I put my hand under as usual, grabbed the eggs .....then realised I had not felt the little egg. Thinking it had finally got broken with the rough treatment it had, I felt under her again, and no egg, but there was something else in its place!!!
Yes, against the odds, a chick has hatched :)
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well done to mum and the new arrival :thumbsup: :chook: :chook:
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Awww, thats sweet.
I have a broody hen at the moment. Despite there being more than one nest the others lay in the same box. They sit on top of her. Each day I collect their eggs and she seems to be quite happy to let me take them.
Sally
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That's a lovely story. Finally she got what she wanted :love: piccies when you can ;D
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One very lucky little chick. :thumbsup:
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Well done, Mother Hen :thumbsup:
Broody bantams do mean business. ;D