Goldberry is our broody hen. A broody hen is one who has stopped laying eggs to focus on incubating them. She wants to be a mom! That means that she will sit in a nesting box (where the hens lay eggs) and will not get out. Her body temperature rises to keep the eggs warm. She is so focused on her eggs that she forgets to eat and drink. She also looses feathers on her stomach so she can keep her eggs warm. This week, we got her a wooden nesting box and some eggs to sit on. In twenty-one days the eggs will hatch.
Goldberry was broody earlier this year. She had hatched our four Sussex chicks and when we took them away to hand raise-them, she was very mad. If you hand-raise chicks they are much tamer than if she raises them because they are used to being handled every day. If a hen raises chicks, she will do everything possible to keep you away from her chicks. So now Goldberry is broody for the second time in a couple of months.
She also does really weird things. She attacks our camp chair, Mr. D's boot, Johnny-Boy's toy lawnmower, and anything else that smalls like a human. So we like to call her "Crazy Goldberry." It suits her, don't you think!
Goldberry was broody earlier this year. She had hatched our four Sussex chicks and when we took them away to hand raise-them, she was very mad. If you hand-raise chicks they are much tamer than if she raises them because they are used to being handled every day. If a hen raises chicks, she will do everything possible to keep you away from her chicks. So now Goldberry is broody for the second time in a couple of months.
She also does really weird things. She attacks our camp chair, Mr. D's boot, Johnny-Boy's toy lawnmower, and anything else that smalls like a human. So we like to call her "Crazy Goldberry." It suits her, don't you think!
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