When out in the coop the other day, we noticed one of our hens sitting in her nest. It's not uncommon, however when we went back in that evening she was still on her nest! Jon decided to see what she would do if we put more eggs under her and with a few clucks and growls, Jon placed 4 more eggs under her. It worked! She has been rendered BROODY!!! She hasn't moved, not to drink or eat, which worries me a bit but perhaps she thinks its to cold right now and will continue to drink and eat once it warms up again. The weather looks good for the rest of the week and we are hoping all goes well for her.
Sweet little thing!! Can't wait to see little peeps sneaking a peek out from under Mom!
In the mean time Proud Papa and I still can't see eye to eye. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure he has it out for me. He wont let me in the pen to change their water or feed them, soooo.... Jon get the privilege of taking care of that pen. He chases me every chance he gets. and gives me the look of death from the roost when I'm in the Orp pen. I hope we will get along better and I wont have to run out of the pen screaming and kicking the door shut in his face and listen to him kick and scratch the door on the other side once he starts to get to go outside. Until then, Him and I...mortal enemies lol! Who'd a thunk I would be saying that about a Rooster! When I took this picture, I had to open the door and put the garbage bin in the door way to prevent him from coming at me. I know it sounds silly but he can be quite persistent and mean. He is after all pretty big at 10 lbs, and those claws.... Yikes!!!
Well here he is before he charged the door, giving me the old stink eye!
The Orpingtons have had their pen scraped down to cement and freshened up.
They seem to be very happy with it. With the weather being warm and cold so quickly, it was getting damp in there and we all know what that leads to.
So on the weekend, my wonderful Hubby and I cleaned it up. As you can imagine they were very helpful!
We just added two little guys to this flock and they seem to be doing fine.They get a little peck here and ther from the big girls but they do have to learn their place.
By the time spring is officially here we should have close to 60 Orpingtons in our flock and
30 Chanteclers to boast about, not to mention the other eggs being collected to be placed in the bator.
Our Broody hen is sitting on eight pretty little eggs as we speak. I guess we will see if she manages to do anything with them. Here's hoping! They will be due at the end of February, I'll keep up to date and post as much as I can on her progress.
Cross your fingers everyone!
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