Well our little hen has been busy this week .Yesterday she laid the fourth and last of her first clutch of eggs. The last egg, as expected was a bit more bluer than the others and seemed to be a little more pointed.I am not putting pictures of her yet because I don't want to frighten her from the nest.
Last year we had a little hen that laid five blue speckled eggs and the last one also was a bit more blue than the others.We did not turn the first egg a half turn like we were supposed to and ended up with only four babies. This picture is of last years family.
This male, Romeo as we called him eventually had to be separated from the family because he was always trying to mate.Romeo would be best for breeding two females at once.He was good about helping mama feed the babies thru the cage.(The picture above is of one of the babies from last year). We tried to remove the divider so that he could be in the cage to help full time but he started to do his "mating dance"and singing with great enthusiasm to one of the female babies.So back went the divider.
Well as thing progress with this years couple I will post more. Thanks for checking out this blog. Look for more updates and please leave your comments. connie
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