OMG, that is the best story, I have every heard!!!!
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "Judy Watson" <jwatson@...> wrote:
>
> I have an Easter Egger that became broody. After removing her from
> the coop and closing the coop off during the day for a couple of weeks she
> was still broody, so I caught her and put her in the small moveable coop and
> pen I keep in the yard for chicks. After a couple of weeks I put her back
> in her normal pen and she seemed to be traumatized by the rooster and did
> nothing but hide and cower. Feeling sorry for her I put her in the next pen
> over with some spring born billy kids I am feeding out and she seems to have
> picked one of them to be her best friend and now they are inseparable!
> Wherever the billy goes the hen goes and hangs out either riding on his back
> or wandering around his legs. When he lays down to sleep, she cuddles up to
> him and also sleeps. When he eats out of the trough, she follows him and
> jumps up to eat out of the trough next to him. She completely ignores the
> other chickens. There are 3 billies in the pen and she only hangs with one
> in particular. She seems to be the happiest I've ever seen her so I've
> decided to let her live with the goats. Oh, and she's finally laying eggs
> again.
>
>
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> Judy Watson
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CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
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