http://www.blagger.co.uk/keeping-chickens/broody-barbara/ Self-sufficiency, growing food, keeping chickens, recipes Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:32:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.blagger.co.uk/keeping-chickens/broody-barbara/comment-page-1/#comment-733 Barbara’s bare bottom Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:46:47 +0000 http://www.blagger.co.uk/?p=1077#comment-733 [...] Every time she shakes herself she dislodges another cloud of them, and now her whole undercarriage is a forest of little spikes, as you can see from the picture. She looks so skinny compared to the plump hen we’re used to. [...] [...] Every time she shakes herself she dislodges another cloud of them, and now her whole undercarriage is a forest of little spikes, as you can see from the picture. She looks so skinny compared to the plump hen we’re used to. [...]

]]> http://www.blagger.co.uk/keeping-chickens/broody-barbara/comment-page-1/#comment-418 david hicks Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:43:16 +0000 http://www.blagger.co.uk/?p=1077#comment-418 Dear Blagger supporter of Barbara chooken: I gather that you are assuming / hoping that after 3 weeks, Barbara ( what a good looking dame !) will lose her urge to sit & return to being a normal (for us humans) healthy egg-laying entity. I have not had such an experience myself with my rooster, Osama bin Layin's special little friend Laila, a dark grey Pekin who is unlikely to ever become a Rhodes scholar.She will sit & sit & sit until she weighs as much as a matchbox. To save us all the agony, I pop here into my special 'de-broodifier' for 2 days & 2 nights. The de- broodifier is an old bird cage with a WIRE MESH floor, suspended off the ground, in the chook yard. The NON SOLID floor I'm told is an essential part of the excercise. 'Chook psychologists' report that the feeling of insecurity engendered by an absence of SOLID SUPPORT replaces the urge to reproduce. Whatever. It works. Dear Blagger supporter of Barbara chooken: I gather that you are assuming / hoping that after 3 weeks, Barbara ( what a good looking dame !) will lose her urge to sit & return to being a normal (for us humans) healthy egg-laying entity.
I have not had such an experience myself with my rooster, Osama bin Layin’s special little friend Laila, a dark grey Pekin who is unlikely to ever become a Rhodes scholar.She will sit & sit & sit until she weighs as much as a matchbox.
To save us all the agony, I pop here into my special ‘de-broodifier’ for 2 days & 2 nights. The de- broodifier is an old bird cage with a WIRE MESH floor, suspended off the ground, in the chook yard. The NON SOLID floor I’m told is an essential part of the excercise. ‘Chook psychologists’ report that the feeling of insecurity engendered by an absence of SOLID SUPPORT replaces the urge to reproduce. Whatever. It works.

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