After returning from the Ararat Farmers market today I got back and put some more water in the pigs wallow to their appreciation and then rounded up the chickens to put them back in the coup for the evening. It was getting a bit dark and there was a dark shadow in the corner of one of the coups. For some reason the gate was shut on that pen and one of the chickens was motionless with its head stuck under a board looking like it was attempting to escape and had probably snapped it own neck. Amanda mentioned later that the black chicken was acting a bit loopy recently.
After disposing of the carcass I went to feed the Silkies which were still sitting on the eggs we planted under them and well over the 21 days that we had read about in terms of the incubation period. We did some reading last night about natural incubation and all articles pointed to leaving the hen to do what she does best. There was a broken egg lying next to them and my first reaction was the bloody things have eaten one of the eggs. I then noticed a little head poking out of the other side of one of the silkies. I did try to pry the silkies off to establish how many there were but was given a sever pecking as a reprimand.
After disposing of the carcass I went to feed the Silkies which were still sitting on the eggs we planted under them and well over the 21 days that we had read about in terms of the incubation period. We did some reading last night about natural incubation and all articles pointed to leaving the hen to do what she does best. There was a broken egg lying next to them and my first reaction was the bloody things have eaten one of the eggs. I then noticed a little head poking out of the other side of one of the silkies. I did try to pry the silkies off to establish how many there were but was given a sever pecking as a reprimand.
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