Rural Gardening: Mama Blacktail has a new brood!, 0 by Eufaula

Eufaula wrote:
About 29 days ago I noticed how broody mama was getting. So I cleaned out the nesting/broody box and lined it with new fresh hay grass. Then robbed mama barred Rock,one of her eggys and place it in the broody box. Sure enough that afternoon Mama Blacktail added one of her own. I knew that she usually lays one egg every other day for 8 days , so at the most only 4 eggs from her per setting. So I really wanted some more Barred Rocks and Mama BR lays everyday, so for the next few days I would switch a Blacktail Japanese egg for a BR egg. The last day I decided to put in a couple of Pickle's eggs( the Mille Fluer BB) too. Now she would have at least 3 BR's and Two Mille's, and OOOOPs , another Japanese decided to add to the nest ! So the last time I saw the group of eggys there were about 9 in all! So we waited!