Rural Gardening: Surprise! Peacock chicks!, 1 by terri_emory

terri_emory wrote:
Well, Mrs Chicken (the peacock hen) had been laying eggs. But I had been faithfully taking them away from her because we really don't have any more room right now for more peacocks. And she kept laying eggs and I kept taking them away from her. Then she stopped laying eggs and I thought that was the end for this season. We went on vacation and my son called to say he thought something was wrong with Mrs Chicken as she was just sitting in the middle of the coop and not doing anything. He said she was allert and looking around. He put some feed in front of her and she ate some of it. As she didn't seem to be in any distress I told him to just leave her alone and check back later. And later he reported that she was now up and moving around. When we got home she was sitting down again, but latter I went back to check on her and she was up on her roost. Noticed her down on that one stop alot but I thought that she just must like sitting there. It was under the shade cloth and nice a cool. Well, she must have been there setting on two eggs and then covering them to hide them from me because look what she had about two weeks ago!