Re: some thing diffrant

Jill wrote:
a_l_p wrote:

Aha. You may be onto something with regard to the most recent. It
was terribly hot, and there she sat in the corner of the chook house
where no passing breeze could have reached her. I was quite
concerned about her at times, esp as she hardly ever got off to go
for a drink let alone food.


They can simply cook them in those circumstances ;)
I hear of similar tales over here some summers when fokls down south have these really hot spells.
In re-telling about their broody they are so proud that she sits SO tight, and you realise that she has not been a good monitor of the ambient temperature.
A really good broody in those situations is one who worries you that she is not on the eggs 'enough' <G>
It can also be a very good thing to giev her a sod of grass, turned upside down put beneath the nest. This was an old ploy to give the nest some humidity

I wondered about that when the first egg had hatched and no others. Next day 2 more, then she kept on sitting.... I wondered if the shells were so dry the chicks couldn't break out, but when I broke the eggs it was obvious that 5 of them had never had anything going on inside and one was mostly "eggy" but had some red (not a blood spot) indicating the beginnings of a blood supply. The most developed one had a definite lump of greyish (fluffless) chick occupying most of the space.

She nested in the far corner (farthest from the door which has a net-covered hole in it and the holes out to the covered run and the little open door to the outside run) on a floor which is boards about 4 inches off the ground, straw litter on the floor. I thought of moving her out to the little-chicky house but I've had a few failures that way with chooks suddenly going off the brood so I let her alone and when it was obvious she was determined I put a selection of eggs under her, trying to get a variety of chicks and also hedge my bets regarding who if any had taken a vow of chastity!

And truly, it's a rule here: the weather is poor till the children go back to school after the summer holidays, after which the summer weather (except when there's no damn summer worth the word) commences . But not this year!

A L P
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