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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: northfifeduckling on June 28, 2010, 10:07:09 pm

Title: hens moved house
Post by: northfifeduckling on June 28, 2010, 10:07:09 pm

I just moved the broodies into the safe house, as the eggs are near " completion". When I checked again a while later they were not sitting on the eggs & I'm a bit concerned that they might not finish the job now! :chook: :chook: :&>

Title: Re: hens moved house
Post by: jameslindsay on June 28, 2010, 10:12:47 pm

Kerstin you could have my incubator but probably too late now as it is not up to temperature etc. Good luck!

Title: Re: hens moved house
Post by: northfifeduckling on June 28, 2010, 10:27:41 pm

Thanks, James! See you Wednesday, will keep you posted if anything happens before! (Nicky "dizzy1pig" is going to leave some stuff for us , hope you don't mind).  :&> :&>

Title: Re: hens moved house
Post by: jameslindsay on June 29, 2010, 08:23:48 am

Thats not a problem, see you tommorrow. :)

Title: Re: hens moved house
Post by: northfifeduckling on June 29, 2010, 10:18:13 pm

it wasn't as easy  as I assumed from other folks' posts!  This morning both jumped out and conversed endlessly with the cockerel in the other run! Then they seemed to rustle about who is going onto which nest and we had a casualty, one almost fully developed chick, quite sad...now one decided to give up and the other one is on the nest with all the eggs left...we'll see in a few days if they were off too long, what a day! :chook: :chook: :&>