RE: Late Autumn in the Garden
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That's terrible! Would she really kill them? We have one (nameless) hen who is an amazing mother. But that is simply because she threatens to gut anything that comes near her babies. We gave her a couple turkey eggs to hatch, because our turkey is having NO success. Needless to say those "babies" are now towering over mama hen but we never get to cuddle them because we fear her fury!
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Aww! She sounds amazing. We once gave some of our fertile eggs to a friend whose pekin frizzle was broody. Only one hatched and it was a standard rooster, so he was already bigger than her before he was mature. Apparently she'd call him up onto the roost with her at night and try to drape her wing over him even though he was bigger.
That hen really was out to kill them. She was bottom of the pecking order and apparently rresentful of it. Once the chicks are old enough to come off heat I'll put them in a cruiser in the run for them to all get used to each other. The chicks would poke their heads under a little gap underneath and she'd peck any she saw like she was playing whack-a-mole. She didn't settle down at all, so when I released them into the main run I kept an eye on things and she'd got some cornered and was going at them. Usually the hens will give a quick peck to tell them their place and leave it at that, but not this one.
So she deserved to be roasted! I hope you didn't get indigestion