PinShareShareTweet0 SharesHave you ever reached a point in the journey of your life, stopped for a moment and wondered, How did I get here? That describes how I have felt these last few weeks as I wrote about my memories of new life and how it pertained to goats and horses. I turned down the… Continue reading Roots and Wings: New Life ~ Chickens
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New Chicks
PinShareShareTweet0 SharesThis week was filled with new life in the form of hatching eggs. The Swedish Flower Hen broody had 6 SFH eggs to hatch out and the IncuView Incubator held 13 fertile Silver Gray Dorking eggs. Broody SFH hen: 6 Swedish Flower Hen eggs Monday night October 23, 2017: Broody hen 1, Incubator 0. Tuesday morning… Continue reading New Chicks
A Broody Swedish Flower Hen
Pin5ShareShareTweet5 SharesFact: 20% of Swedish Flower Hens go broody. Not a high number really considering 50% of my Silver Gray Dorking Hens went broody at under a year. (3 out of 6) My first group of 8 hens(SFH) are well over a year old and no broody among them. Out of 18 (SFH) hens this is the… Continue reading A Broody Swedish Flower Hen
Silver Gray Dorking Hens go Broody
Pin2ShareShare1Tweet3 Shares I did not get a picture of all three hens in one nesting box, but that is what I came home to when returning from my trip out west. I am excited to share my trip, but that is for other posts. They had been setting approximately a week when I returned on… Continue reading Silver Gray Dorking Hens go Broody