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Jane Howard’s Fables from the Farm Jane awaits the arrival of eggs at Coopers Farm I mentioned a couple of months ago that I was expecting one or two of the hens to go broody and, bingo, Pam, one of our Gold Laced Orpingtons has obliged. No one is quite sure what makes a hen decide to go broody but it’s a wonderful thing if you want more chickens and an annoying habit if you want to maintain your backyard flock and keep up egg production. To overcome this, some clever bod created ‘hybrid’ hens that have had the broody business bred out of them and the idea of motherhood never enters their already very small brains. Needless to say we don’t have hybrids, oh no, I was persuaded by my daughter to buy Gold Laced Orpingtons, the Kim Kardashians of the chicken world. They are big, beautiful and blowsy (and, of course, much more expensive than any of the others on offer) and definitely see motherhood as a more sensible career option than laying a daily egg. Left to their own devices, a hen thinking about going broody will search out a safe, dark place in which to create her nest and then visit it every day to lay until she has a clutch of at least a dozen eggs. Then she plucks the feathers from her breast and sits tight on the clutch for 21 days while they develop into chicks. However, our hens are in the habit of laying their eggs in the nesting box and you can only imagine how annoying it must be when yours truly arrives every day to take them away. So there she is, broody, with a neatly plucked breast yet only one rather lonely egg to incubate. But salvation is at hand! Google ‘fertile hatching eggs’ and up come literally hundreds of egg options, from all manner of feathered friends. A wonderful online retail opportunity, with the potential to become so much more. I reckon our big girls can easily manage a dozen, (although one is always advised to give them an odd number as this can more easily be made into a perfect circle to sit on), but what to choose? Cream Crested Legbars with fabulous 48 hours later a package arrives in the post with the eggs swathed in layers of bubble wrap blue eggs, Copper Neck Marrans with very dark eggs or maybe something exotic like a Sablepoot or a Polish Silkie that looks like it’s got a bird’s nest on its head. Or maybe I should go off piste and get some ducks (not convinced Pam would excel at teaching them to swim!). Aaargh, decisions, decisions! In the end I plumped for some chocolate-laced Bantam Orpingtons, which is ridiculous really, gorgeous as they are, as they won’t even lay a decent size egg! Oh well, you pays your money and… 48 hours later a package arrives in the post with the eggs swathed in layers of bubble wrap. After being in transit with the Post Office, they have to be still for a day – known as setting – and then around dusk, I pop down to the hen house and slip them under Pam, who may be a little surprised at the arrival of a dozen cold eggs to add to her singleton. She soon gets them tucked under her to warm up and as far as a chicken can be, seems genuinely thrilled to have more than one to look after. For 20 days she’ll sit tight on the eggs, revolving each round and round under her so that it warms equally on all sides. And then on Day 21 the magic begins. The eggs start to cheep, which is a signal to Pam to stop sitting so tight and to give them a bit more space to hatch out and dry off. And then for about three or four months she’ll mother them with unceasing care and attention, taking them round the farm and imparting all her wisdom on how to be a successful hen – though history dictates that more often than not most of the chicks will be cockerels and their minds will be on other matters! Follow Jane Howard – and the farm – on Instagram @coopersfarm wealdentimes.co.uk 174
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