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SexyBear77
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 01/09/2009 : 09:57:55
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Well my Barnevelder chicken Lucky has been pretty broody recently, and I mentioned it to the local chicken expert when collecting their quarterly lice treatment- and came home with 8 fertile eggs! 
we have 4 buff orpington eggs and 4 cream legbar eggs, and so Lucky is set up in an old dog kennel, hoping they will hatch. Good luck to her as she has been trying to hatch a ceramic egg for the past three months bless 'er 
any that hatch will be due on the 21st September!
Fingers crossed and pics to follow! |
9.11 Cornsnakes
1.1 Hogg island boas
1.0 Dwarf Burmese python
Location: Watford
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Posted - 01/09/2009 : 10:07:31
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| My grandad kept chickens when i was small i used to love going up the garden and feeding them am letting them out .....good luck with them |
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Brookestar
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/09/2009 : 10:08:27
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good news sexybear. hope they all hatch. got to beat kehhlyrs pics  |
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SexyBear77
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3796 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2009 : 10:16:25
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| ha ha I'll try but lucky is a psycho and will most likely attack the camera- you might just see a beak up close! |
9.11 Cornsnakes
1.1 Hogg island boas
1.0 Dwarf Burmese python
Location: Watford
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Brookestar
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2361 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2009 : 10:19:06
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Kehhlyr
ǝʞɐɔ sǝʌoן
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/09/2009 : 10:56:23
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Because a ours had been really broody as well, we got a couple of eggs that were just starting to pip, meaning that just one overnight sitting and she would have finished hatching them.
Good news is that all 3 ducks loved it, they all tried sitting on the nest at the same time becuse they could feel the chicks hatching.
Bad news is that rats got the chicks when they had only been hatched about 1/2 hour, hence is why we went and got a couple more day olds.
All 3 mummy ducks tried to fight the rats off, 1 sustained fair damage to her wings in the process.
We couldn't give the replacement ducklings to our girls because they were all squabbling over who was gonna be the primary mummy.
Needless to say, the rat-traps are out now.  |
-=Kehhlyr - The Resident Loon
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SexyBear77
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3796 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2009 : 11:06:25
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| aw those poor chicks, but brave mummy duck for trying to protect them. you must be very proud of your flock! the kennel is rat proof and the cats and terriers keep the little blighters in check so hopefully all that hatch will survive. |
9.11 Cornsnakes
1.1 Hogg island boas
1.0 Dwarf Burmese python
Location: Watford
Website- http://rassnakes.yolasite.com/ |
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Kehhlyr
ǝʞɐɔ sǝʌoן
United Kingdom
8173 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2009 : 11:17:09
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The woman I got the ducklings off told me about how she had a really broody goose not long before-hand, so she let the goose hatch half a dozen duck eggs.
Obviously as far as the goose was concerned they were her chicks, but apparently it was one of the funniest things you could see, a massive goose leading her flock of new-hatched ducklings around.
I would've loved to have seen it. |
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SexyBear77
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3796 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2009 : 18:42:56
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oh its not looking good, 1 egg is broken, 1 is missing and three are cold were they have been buried by her in the square of lawn turf we put in. 
dont think any will hatch. |
9.11 Cornsnakes
1.1 Hogg island boas
1.0 Dwarf Burmese python
Location: Watford
Website- http://rassnakes.yolasite.com/ |
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meggi
Hatchling
United Kingdom
321 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2009 : 19:00:22
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aawwww sorry. i have 3 chooks , i LOVE them , kud sit their all day wotchin them. we recued ours from the barn , orignally we rescued 4 but 1 died? (lilly - may).
GUD LUK WITH THE EGGS , even if they dont hatch , u did ur best
sorry no piks of toby |
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HannahB
The Corn Snake Moderator
United Kingdom
5491 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2009 : 20:08:28
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aw shame it isnt looking good
my friend gave me a chicken for my birthday last year and to keep her company we got three more.. unfortunately we lost gravy, noodle and daphne to foxes but we still have our little Camilla she gives us an egg nearly every day and im telling you is just like one of the family - she gets better fed than i do!!!
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2.0 Normal Royal Pythons - Q and Little One
1.0 Chihauhaun Mountain Kingsnake - Simba
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Kellog
the nice one
United Kingdom
7308 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2009 : 20:09:47
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| Sorry SB. You certainly did everything you could, for your chicken and the eggs. Unfortunately nature takes its course and we cant influence what happens. Dont let it stop you from trying again. xxx |
  
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Hatching chicken eggs!
