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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Broody Hens at the Homestead

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

There's been some new milestones here at the Homestead and also at the Hermit Tosh.

0:17.6

Hermit Tosh?

0:18.6

I like that.

0:19.6

I like that.

0:20.6

It's a real location.

0:21.6

That's where Hermits go.

0:22.6

Let's keep it.

0:23.6

Yeah, the Hermit Tosh.

0:24.6

So we both have chickens.

0:25.6

My chicken, the one that is named a butter, butter, the buff orping tin, which Jacques has

0:32.7

an analog of chirp is yours.

0:34.5

I also have saffron now.

0:35.8

Oh, right.

0:36.8

You have two.

0:37.8

He double dipped into those buff orping tins and we're about to figure out that that may

0:42.0

have not been a smart idea because chirp, jocks has become broody and so has now butter

0:48.0

has become broody.

0:49.0

Yeah.

0:50.0

She's almost two weeks into her broody stage and I'll share this with you.

0:53.1

For those of you who don't know, broody is basically the chicken thinking that it needs

0:57.1

to incubate an egg that it's not even fertilized.

0:59.6

It's just like a genetic thing.

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