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Tuesday 24 November 2009

Low tech incubator

... and here she is, Nana McHugh - my little silky bantam who is currently sitting on a clutch of a dozen hens eggs with which I sneakily replaced hers. By my calculations they should hatch around about the same time as we celebrate the birth of that little Middle Eastern kiddy. I wonder if Nana will be as amazed by her own immaculate conceptions? Heheh.

5 comments:

  1. Bet she works a sight better than a 75-watt spotlight. Unless you actually WANT parboiled eggs, that is.

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  2. 75Wattt! That's FRIED eggs!

    It is kind of amazing that they can sit there for twentry four days. Just - sit there.

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  3. Silkies are awesome for hatching eggs. Nice colouring too

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  4. And if you want a good foster family I hear there's this lovely family in Tassie with three kids and busy career wife and house husband!!!

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  5. Silkies are the best mothers and incubators. I think they go into a sort of trance when they are broody. I lift my silkies of the nest when I collect the eggs and I put them outside the coop (so they have some water and feed)and it takes a couple of minutes before they snap out of their trance - then they run around like crazy.

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