2nd egg
It is so hard to imagine that something as terrible as a hurricane is just a day's drive away from us and here in Western PA it is a foggy morning with still air - the sun just starting to peek through the fog - it looks like it's going to be a beautiful day. I have to keep checking the internet news to see if there are any changes. The last I heard Irma is turning even more to the west. I hope the worst of it can miss Bradenton where my sister Kathy and her family are. But even if that happens there will still be terrible destruction.
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I had been watching the baby monitor this morning to see if anything was going on out there and it didn't take long before I saw one of the ISA Browns arranging a nest - picking up litter and moving it around, making a depression in the middle of the nest box.
She got it all fixed up to her satisfaction and sat down.
While sitting, about every 20 seconds she would "gawk". That's what I'm going to call it. She made no sound while doing it - just opened her mouth up for a second and then closed it. I couldn't really tell from the baby monitor who it was so I went out to see. It was Wings as I suspected. When they were little she was the first to fly and perch and the first to do most everything else.
After a while a few other chickens came in and gathered around her - looking closely at her. This is one of the things I love about chickens - the way they will study something while turning their heads this way and that.
More midwives arrived and gathered around.
I didn't hear anything different - no squawk, but suddenly she jumped up and the other chickens all jumped back and they all went out together. And there was the egg.
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I had been watching the baby monitor this morning to see if anything was going on out there and it didn't take long before I saw one of the ISA Browns arranging a nest - picking up litter and moving it around, making a depression in the middle of the nest box.
She got it all fixed up to her satisfaction and sat down.
While sitting, about every 20 seconds she would "gawk". That's what I'm going to call it. She made no sound while doing it - just opened her mouth up for a second and then closed it. I couldn't really tell from the baby monitor who it was so I went out to see. It was Wings as I suspected. When they were little she was the first to fly and perch and the first to do most everything else.
After a while a few other chickens came in and gathered around her - looking closely at her. This is one of the things I love about chickens - the way they will study something while turning their heads this way and that.
More midwives arrived and gathered around.
I didn't hear anything different - no squawk, but suddenly she jumped up and the other chickens all jumped back and they all went out together. And there was the egg.