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symonep

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Chickendog
« on: August 14, 2012, 18:00 »
I have 1 hen who is obsessed with the dog beds! One bed is a normal plastic bed and the other is an igloo type bed, she will come in and sit in the igloo bed for ages. I shoo her out walk back indoors and she is right there behind me.
I have the feeling she would rather be indoors than outdoors sometimes  ???
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ANHBUC

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Re: Chickendog
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2012, 18:01 »
Sounds like broody behaviour to me.   :ohmy:
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Re: Chickendog
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2012, 18:06 »
 :blink: blimey don't say that, she is oly 30 weeks old. Mind you with my incubator situation at the moment it would come in handy  :D
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Re: Chickendog
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2012, 18:59 »
No.  She definitely thinks she's a dog.  I've got a chickendog too who escapes out of the run every morning whenever she sees my OH in the kitchen and whines at the back door until she's given a treat.  She follows us round and when we got in the car the other day and she was certainly going to jump in with us.  ;)
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Re: Chickendog
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2012, 19:16 »
 :D they certainly are funny, the others wander in and go straight back out but not this one (really must give her a name, she has a blue ring on her leg as we have 3 identical hens!) as I type she is mooching in the igloo again.
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ANHBUC

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Re: Chickendog
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2012, 19:42 »
It looks like a nice nesting site for her.   :lol:  Put some bedding in and see what happens, you might not need your incubator after all. 
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symonep

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Re: Chickendog
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2012, 20:08 »
Not sure the dogs would be impresssed with that, she already marched in the igloo not reallising the dog was in there  :blink:
Will get a photo tomorrow
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Re: Chickendog
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2012, 21:14 »
you'll have to call her Pinga :)
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Re: Chickendog
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2012, 08:21 »
Mine loves the dogs bed. She does an hour or so in there every morning and before she stopped laying she'd 'deliver' the eggs!
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