If you've kept chickens for awhile, then you know that most missing chicken stories don't have happy endings. We were so glad this one did! We've become very attached to our three banties. They are so sweet and gentle and just the right size for the children to cuddle.
One night she didn't turn up on the roost with the others, although I had last seen her about an hour before closing the pen when I tossed them their daily ration of scratch grains. After a brief search of the backyard the next day, this is where we found her:
What else to do with a hoard of 16 eggs, but to set them?
This little
girl seems to have her seasons mixed up. It has been an unusually warm November this year, so that is understandable. Maybe in the spring I will
allow her to set some. I felt really bad taking them from her and even worse scrambling them up later!
If these were fertile, they would have been a cross between our white Easter Egger cockerel and bantam Golden Seabright. The banties have discovered they can squeeze between the gaps in the electric poultry netting when it's off and he usually flies over daily to escape our other Easter Egger cockerel who is the top dog. So they have formed their own little band, although the banties get along with all of my other chickens and can mingle at will.
I just bought an incubator this fall. I can't wait to hatch some eggs! I will post pics and stories about that when the time comes. Chicken math...you know how that goes! :)
