Yes, we have another broody!
This is our 4th - the first successfully hatched 3 chicks, the second 5 chicks and the third just two.
In between times we hatched out a big batch in the incubator. 15 hatched, and 11 have survived so far!
Trouble is with broody number 4 is that our eggs are no longer fertile as we had dispatched the cockerel, so a quick shout out on our local Devon Smallholders Facebook group and I found someone local who had some hatching eggs. So, a quick dash up to Woolsery and I bought 5 french maran eggs. The lady I bought from said that a broody will sit on an odd number of eggs, so I couldn't have six, I had to have 5 or 7, so 5 it was!
Who knew!
Blog of a llama owner! Living in the far west of North Devon, I own a 2.5+ acre smallholding with my wife Vicki and currently have 2 llamas, 15 pygmy goats, 20+ chickens, 3 dogs and a cat.
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