Hi All,
just thought I'd let you know that Snowy ( my proffessional broody ) has officially gone broody this week. Now given that she rejected her last lot of chicks at New year she has managed a record breaking 5 weeks of sporadic laying before launching her self into motherhood once again. I'm not sure if this is a behaviour that other hens will follow but Mays little hen might just be thinking about it to.
Snowy normally only manages 2 weeks between rejecting one batch of chicks and becoming broody again so I have done rather well to have got a dozen or so eggs from her and a sunny disposition before loosing her once again to several weeks of moody maternity. ( ooh she does get grumpy!)
It does mean however that I definatly need to dispatch the couple of young cockerels that I have in the small coop and sterilise the place with milton before settling Snowy and a clutch of Blue croad eggs in to it over the weekend. Ah the poultry year has begun
Here is a pic of her with her last batch of chicks that she brooded through the dreadful winter. Before you get all gooie over the chicks Mays....they turned into the two cockerels that I have to dispatch at the weekend.
Buffy