Smoke seems to be going for a record of serial broodiness. This time is her quickest yet and least number of eggs laid. Eight eggs in twelve days and she is broody again.
I will continue with my usual regime of lifting Smoke from the nest box every time I go in to the girls in the hope that I can get her through this as quickly as possible.
We hardly seem to get any time between broodies these days. I really hope that we can get a hamburg so that we can add a girl with a non broody nature!
In other news our two roses that flower until the first frosts are now flowering beautifully.
This was a standard rose but we have let it go wild. Both roses are quite different but both flower from now until November.
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Your roses are beautiful – long may they bloom. Smoke is persistent; I hope you can dissuade her quickly. Hamburgs generally don’t go broody, although one of my trio did and raised a couple of batches of chicks. There is always an exception: I have had one of my leghorns broody for two weeks now, almost unbelievable.
Catrin said that her hamburgs have never gone broody and my leghorns never did either. I suppose there will always be an exception to the rules though. I feel for you having a broody leghorn. I guess it is all the circle of life so although it’s annoying to us it has to be as we need chicks to continue. I know that we can’t expect our girls to do what we want them to do but it doesn’t stop it being a pain at times and as mine are not going to be able to rear chicks I try to do what is best for them too even though they won’t see it that way. Instinct is a powerful thing.
What a lovely sight to get up each day and see.
The one with the tiny pink flowers is so pretty and so long lasting.