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The day I found that first dead baby chicken (Thursday) I left town for a conference in British Columbia. On the train that evening, I got a call from the homestead. Our friend Darryl said, “There is an egg with … Continue reading
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Tagged exposure, hatching baby chicks
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One is the loneliest number
This morning I found a beautiful, perfect, dead baby chick in the nest box with the fertilized eggs. Down still matted, eyes still shut tight. Calamity Jane, the would-be mother hen, was sitting on a clean empty nest next door. … Continue reading
Posted in baby chickens, broody hen, chicken coop / run, chickens, eggs, update
Tagged broody hen, dead baby chicken, hatching eggs
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Broody Hen
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My young hen Calamity Jane sits in the nest box. She has done very little else for weeks now. She spends the day in there when the other chickens are out having dirt baths and fighting over the compost pile. She spends the night in there when the other chickens are sleeping on the roost. She makes distraught cluck-cluck-cluck sounds when we force her off the nest. There is no doubt about it – she is broody… Continue reading
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Tagged broodiness, fertilie eggs, hatching eggs
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Pullet Eggs
One of our new chickens, The White Queen, has started laying (4.5 mo old SLW). It began a few days prior with a submissive squat, followed by frantic searching for ‘The Safe Place’. Mostly this involved poking about the yard … Continue reading
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