Tu-Tu is seriously considering becoming broody again. For a while we’ve managed to change her mind, by lifting her out of the nest box and putting her back into the run every time one of us goes down to chat with the chickens. It only took a few days before she gave it up, but then Maggie decided that she would go broody too.
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We took the same action with her, but when we opened the nest box yesterday, we found both Maggie and Tu-Tu jammed into the same nest box. Tu-Tu had tucked her head under Maggie’s wing in an effort to make her so uncomfortable, she’d leave. But Maggie was quite determined to stay put. We were equally determined that they’d both leave and, much to the annoyance of the pair of them, we put the duo back into the run.
We played this game last year and the result was a draw. Maggie lost interest, Tu-Tu didn’t and we ended up getting 3 fertile Araucana eggs for her to take care of.
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