Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat

Poultry and Pets => Chicken Chat => Topic started by: joyfull on January 01, 2012, 14:20

Title: Foiled
Post by: joyfull on January 01, 2012, 14:20
Today whilst Jim has been shifting stuff around the yard he has found 2 hidden clutches one with 9 eggs in and another with 11. Then to top it all a broody was found sitting on a clutch of 19 araucana eggs. Sadly for her I don't want anymore chickens so had to oust her off them and throw the eggs away.
There was me thinking they were waiting for spring to start laying again  ::)
Title: Re: Foiled
Post by: New shoot on January 01, 2012, 14:57
Little monkeys  :lol:

They can be so crafty when they want to be  :D
Title: Re: Foiled
Post by: joyfull on January 01, 2012, 15:00
I really do need to dispatch the cockerels when I can catch the blighters to stop any more possible mishaps  :)
Title: Re: Foiled
Post by: sneezer on January 02, 2012, 07:38
They really are funny little things, imagine your surprise if she hadn't been discovered and 19 little ones greated you one morning :lol:
Title: Re: Foiled
Post by: joyfull on January 02, 2012, 09:38
I doubt all would have hatched as she isn't big enough to cover them all (although she was doing her best to). I have had them return with little ones (and there was me thinking the local mink had got her) but these all ended sleeping in the trees and are a right pain when they all turn out to be cockerels and need culling  :(