I‘ve written about our two chickens before. They’re lovely and sweet, though a bit shy. Fatima, the brown chicken, started to spend a lot of time in the nesting box the past weeks. She would easily spend several hours there and we got less and less eggs. It seemed for every three eggs Lourdes would give us, we only got one of Fatima. She was also losing all of her feathers on her lower chest and stomach. It was pretty clear she was nesting and tried to brood the eggs. I always took the eggs away, as we don’t have a rooster, and gently tried to get her leave the nesting box, but I saw absolutely no progress.
Today, our neighbour sent me a message to let me know she was going to buy some fertilised eggs as one of her chickens was trying to brood and if I wanted some. Of course I said yes and after a trip to the pet store together, we both came home with a nice box of eggs. I placed them in the nesting box and Fatima is happily sitting on top of them. She’s very serious about it and I didn’t want to disturb her (she looks very stern when I open the box), but I managed to quickly sneak a picture.
I hope to show you pictures of little chicks in three weeks!
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