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We keep hens to produce eggs.

Broody hens are strictly forbidden !

You must have a cockerel too? When I last looked they couldn’t lay eggs………

Naughty broodies should be regularly ousted from the nest box well before they reach that stage. Pay attention to your livestock! 😄. 

Yes indeed. She originally had 18 eggs. 14 hatched, casualties followed, now left with 9.

This mother hen worked by stealth, built a sizeable nest and layed all 18 eggs before I registered. The nest was within 1m of my daily passage but quite out of sight below a collection of oil & fuel canisters. By which time the eggs were likely beyond consumption, and backed by a family vote, she won her maternal rights !

Her gift for Easter 🐣. May you be blessed with a high proportion of pullets