Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => Chicken Chat => Topic started by: Spana on May 30, 2011, 20:22
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Maggie was a sweet little cockoo maran. She had been brought down here by my grandson to spend her retirement free ranging with my girls. She was getting on a bit so didn't lay very often but when she did it was a lovely dark brown egg.
One evening I noticed she had a terrible prolapse, we had no choice but to cull her. :(
I'd still got her last 2 eggs in the fridge, one about 7days old, one 10days. I brought them up to room temperature over a few days and put them under a broodie.
They have both hatched :happy:
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I'm so pleased to still have a little bit of her about :happy:
Now for little Goldie :)
Some of my hens have a thing about plastic. When I found 3 eggs on a pile if dustbin bags i marked them with a permanent marker and each day took out the fresh eggs. This worked well for a couple of weeks, the eggs being sat on each day by severel hens while they laid their egg. One day i lifted Goldie off and realised she had gone broodie on the old stale marked eggs. I left her thinking they were so old they would never hatch. But of course they did, all three. ::)
Unfortunatly Goldie took an instant dislike to one of the chicks and killed it but is being a loving mother to the remaining two :)
Here they are :happy:
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Awww Spana, what a lovely story, and what lovely chicks!
Congratulations!
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How gorgeous :) It just shows how resiliant they can be :D
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how lovely, so pleased you have something to remember Maggie :)
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Thanks peeps, just when i'm trying to reduce numbers as well. :D But it shows what tough little critters they are. :)
Makes you wonder if all the egg turning we are supposed to do with fertile eggs is really necessary. ::)
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Lovely stories and gorgeous chicks. :)
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how sweet :D
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What a lovely story - as they say, nature will find a way! :)