Springtime on the Ranch often means hormones. That often equates to babies (remember that kids!). We have a broody hen, she has insisted she needs to raise some chicks. We don’t have a rooster so that was going to be a problem for her, but she wasn’t taking no for an answer, in fact it was getting ugly. She was stealing the other hens eggs, when my Mom went to get those eggs, little hen would beat my Mom up (I wish I was kidding). I jumped on Craigslist and found a local farm that sells fertilized chicken eggs, Valley View Farm. We called and went out to select a dozen fertilized eggs.
My Mom and I had a great time meeting all of Valley View Farm’s chickens and deciding what type of eggs we wanted!
Since my Mom and this hen have some history and we are all afraid of her, we decided that my Mom needed some protective clothing.
My Mom very carefully placed the fertilized eggs under the broody hen. Of course the hen did her best to peck at Mom and generally be a brat, but we had success!
We left the hen alone for a few minutes and when we came back:
Some more good news! Our cowdog Ranchie is also expecting! This will be her second litter! The first produced Hoot and Jinx dog and you all know how proud we are of them! These are going to be some amazing working dogs!
congrats on chicks and pups!
EXCITEMENT! I can’t wait to see all the chicks and pups! (Puppies stay cute longer than chicks, so I’ll obviously prefer them. Chicks grow up to be scary taloned beady-eyed creepy mini-dinosaurs.)
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Aww, so cute! 🙂 I want to see the video though, post!!
I’ll e-mail it to you. Not my Mom’s finest moment, LOL!