Archive for the ‘Broody Hen and Eggs’ Category
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Another Egg Hatched
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Seems like one egg per day is hatching now. There are 8 eggs left to go. We may end up having to candle them if hatching slows down since it’s possible that the embryos have died, though so far everything seems to be going well.
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Updates on the mother hen and her eggs
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
The second hatching day here at the farm. So far everyone is happy and healthy…
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Eggs are hatching at the farm!
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
We’ve had a mother hen sitting on a nest now for a couple of weeks. She’s almost a year old and suddenly just showed an interest in being a mother. Taryn and I wanted to see how much the mother hen would do without our help, so we just cleaned the nest box and added [...]