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Category Archives: nest boxes
Broody loves the box
After finishing construction of the broody box Wednesday afternoon, I eagerly awaited dusk when I would transfer Calamity Jane and her brood. She hadn’t particularly noticed me putting the eggs under her that morning (I often root around under her … Continue reading
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Tagged broody box
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One-dead-baby-chicken, two-dead-baby-chicken, three-dead-baby-chicken …
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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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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