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#1 11-12-2009 08:47:38
- thndrdancr
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- From: Lincoln, Nebraska
- Registered: 12-13-2007
- Posts: 2695
Boo is a bad mom
I am very aggravated to find Boo is a horrid mother. She tries to reject the eggs when they start peeping and she tries to peck the chicks when they come out.
I knew she had bloodied the second chick I put under her, but thought maybe it was a fluke due to her not having set the 21 days yet, but I just had three full black/blue orps hatch yesterday and she wants to kill them. 
Saturday the silkie/showgirl eggs are due, then I am not sure what to do with her, as Dash and her are wanting to have some knock down dragouts.
I will have to keep Boo crated or something, I just dont trust her at all!
Pic of Boo crowding Dash out... 
Jill~Chicken mom to six chicken children!
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#2 11-12-2009 09:05:59
- Lissimore12
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- From: Terrace B.C.
- Registered: 03-29-2009
- Posts: 1026
Re: Boo is a bad mom
That's too bad 
~ Alex ~
Dot&Dash <3
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#3 11-12-2009 10:55:50
- HippieChickens
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- From: Arizona
- Registered: 10-30-2009
- Posts: 59
Re: Boo is a bad mom
So sorry to hear that, but some gals are cut out for motherhood and some are not. 
Birds are my life.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. - Frank Lloyd Wright
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#4 11-12-2009 02:20:52
- TurtleChick
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- From: Tacoma, WA
- Registered: 03-27-2009
- Posts: 1709
Re: Boo is a bad mom
if only we could lock up some bad people moms! 
sorry she's being a booger-child! hopefully she'll turn it around as she gets a little experience... imagine the shock, sitting all cozy and warm brooding your little eggies and then suddenly there's some little interloper trying to peck apart your beautiful eggs! 
Love my DH, 3 kidlets, 3 doglets, 2 kitties (one of whom thinks he's dog #4...), 6 orpington girls: 2 blue, 2 black, 2 white If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. ~Will Rogers~
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