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Christy
Farmgirl in Training
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Christy
Manhattan
Kansas
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 Posted - Sep 23 2008 : 12:14:12 PM
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where my chicken is laying her eggs. She is a bantam and was laying her eggs in the coop with the others. I don't know if they were picking on her or what but a couple of weeks ago she disappeared. I thought something had gotten her. But then one day I saw her again and then she was gone for a few days. I saw her again this morning and followed her to some barberry bushes in the front yard. Somehow she is getting out of the backyard. She is being such a good mom and sitting on her nest, I just can't take her eggs away. But I need to do something we live on a busy street corner and I don't want her to get hit. We also have a racoon that has been coming up to steal apples and I'm worried about her running into him.
So my dilemma how to I get her to stay in the backyard, move her nest? How often do you need to clip they wings? |
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AuntPammy
True Blue Farmgirl
488 Posts
Pamila
williamstown
wv
USA
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Posted - Sep 23 2008 : 12:24:20 PM
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Oh my! I had a bantam rooster and hen once. The poor things were not welcome to live in the coop with all the other chickens. Well one day Rocky and Ginger were out for a stroll and Ginger decided to lay her egg in a nest by the side of the road. Rocky kept a constant vigil by her side as she built the nest. The next thing we knew a lady drove by the nest, ran over Ginger and out popped her precious egg. We, as a family were devistated. To top it off Rocky committed suicide the next day by jumping into our swimming pool. Maybe if at all possible you could build her a small house so she can nest. I watched The History of the American Chicken on PBS the other evening and that is what one man did for his Silky. I wish I would have known to do this, it would have saved some heartbreak.
Let's dance in the rain and play in the puddles under the rainbows.
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deeredawn
True Blue Farmgirl
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Dawn
Cordova
TN
USA
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Posted - Sep 23 2008 : 1:03:18 PM
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Or...if you really want to move her.... pick her and her nest up at night, with gloves, and move her to another area. I say with gloves cuz I got pecked to death by a crabby momma once! At night because they wont try to go back to where they were...at least thats what I'm told....
Dawn #279
MJ's Heirloom Mavens/Mother Hen
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"I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one!"...Calamity Jane |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Sep 23 2008 : 4:59:04 PM
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I had a hen that would start to set on a nest of eggs, get up to eat and go set on another nest. So I just got a cage, put straw in it, put the eggs in, then her. Just keep a waterer and throw food in. They don't eat much when they're setting.
Good idea to do it at night so she won't get flustered. You sure don't want to lose her.
I've got a guinea setting on a nest now! |
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countrygal56
True Blue Farmgirl
221 Posts
Barbara
Dickson
Tennessee
USA
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Posted - Sep 23 2008 : 5:23:46 PM
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My chickens do that, sit on one nest, go to eat, etc. and then go back and sit on another nest. It's kinda humorous. Also, I have seen my chickens line up to lay eggs in the very same nest another bird is sitting in. As if there are no free nests, which of course there are. Chickens are funny.
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