tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post4497264786210235049..comments2023-10-17T12:05:26.540+01:00Comments on Razor-blade of Life: Brooding and ruminatingZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00822383355869390919noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-21427108435437613452011-06-30T20:04:15.565+01:002011-06-30T20:04:15.565+01:00We are still chucking her out at regular intervals...We are still chucking her out at regular intervals. She<br />Is still eating, so can't be that broody.<br /><br />We do not have a cockerel at present or else we wouldn't mind a few sitting hens. <br /><br />Thank you, Christopher. Very helpful. <br /><br />The corn is kept in the porch too, Boy, so she is sure of food, whatever happens..Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00822383355869390919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-76930299604578088622011-06-30T15:19:35.601+01:002011-06-30T15:19:35.601+01:00Well at least she has the good taste to choose an ...Well at least she has the good taste to choose an ideal location (for her). Comfortable, and she gets corn if booted out. Hens aren't as dum as they seem sometimes.The Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06052411992134880131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-36854616607852104592011-06-30T13:28:32.499+01:002011-06-30T13:28:32.499+01:00I came across some fairly robust poultry-keeping p...I came across some fairly robust poultry-keeping practices when we lived in Deepest Nairnshire. Here are some for you to brood (or even ruminate) over: <br /><br />1. A bucket of cold water thrown over the broody hen soon cures it<br /><br />2. We always had a few china eggs about to insert under broody hens (being too soft-hearted to contemplate the water trick) to ensure no waste of eggs<br /><br />3. Sovereign method of cleaning chimneys - I would have mentioned this when you were writing about birds in chimneys some weeks ago, but we must have been away - was to drop a hen down. (We used to use a jagged stone covered with heather roots on a rope and jiggle it up and down. Hence the once-popular Scots comic song 'Stap yer jigglin', Jock'.)<br /><br />Over to Rog for further comment.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14227767014123557100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-32855241207726663372011-06-30T07:46:37.820+01:002011-06-30T07:46:37.820+01:00Congrats on your post title. Had me laughing, alwa...Congrats on your post title. Had me laughing, always a good way to start the day.<br /><br />I thought bantams laying unfertilised eggs was the idea?Roseshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07469442580348062913noreply@blogger.com