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Skriven 2006-06-24 07:21:24 av DAVE SACERDOTE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GLEN JAMIESON
Ärende: WEIRD FOOD: COURTESY60623
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DS> I have some ceramic eggs that I place in the nesting box 
DS> for new pullets to show them where eggs should be laid.  
DS> Think I might put a couple under the broody hen so she won't 
DS> be so mad at me when I take T3H B4B13Z!!11!

GJ> You are too kind. My grandfather had an unfailing cure for 
GJ> broody hens.  Chop!  

My goodness, that's a waste of a perfectly good egg machine.  Broody
hens still lay, and they get over their dark mood in a couple of weeks.  
I can afford to wait them out.  I'm actually kind of grateful that 
man has been unable to completely eliminate natural chook behavior 
from EVERY chicken in my flock.

The death penalty is earned by my chickens for only one offense:
egg-eating.  Once a hen starts breaking eggs and eating them, she
will teach the others and so I wring their necks immediately upon
discovering which hen is doing it.  (It's only happened once.)

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I had one chicken that was an escape artist.  She found that she
could fly just high enough to perch on the top of the fence 
surrounding the henyard, and from there she would launch off out
of captivity.  Soon, three of the others were imitating her.  It 
took me days to figure out how they were doing it, but I finally
caught them in the act.

So, I brought a pair of scissors out to the henyard with me and 
clipped their primaries.  They were smart enough to figure out how 
to fly, but not smart enough that they tried again after the
feathers grew back in.

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