As mentioned in the last post, Ginger, our Columbian Blacktail has gone broody. Since our cockerels have now gone, we have had to buy a dozen eggs for hatching. We got 4 exchequer leghorn and 8 rhode island red eggs. We have given 6 to Ginger and she has now been sitting on them for a week. The other 6 have gone in to a new small incubator. Hatching is due in early August.
Ginger is over 3 years old and is no longer laying but she does the mother hen role very well.
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Ginger is a wonderful hen to have. The only broody hen we had in the last five years has been one that decided to do it in December, and I am sure it is colder here than where you live, because I have not seen photos of snow drifts higher than the door.
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