Desperate for a family!

[Guest mick bowler]

Have a pair that the hen, for whatever reason, has not laid this year. Another pair have decided to lay in the corner of the stock loft, as some do. Now the cock from the eggless pair has decided he wants to sit these eggs and has fought off the hen and cock to the eggs!!

 

Talk about desperate for a family! Never seen this happen before.  :-/

[Guest Owen]

There are people like that, Mick.

[greenlands]

If he'd been a race bird it would have been pooled a few times,can do alsorts of tricks with a cock nesting on the floor,he'll protect it like hell.

Lindsay

[blackswan]

i once gave a lad some birds to start up and one day a checker hen came back and laid on the floor i gave him the hen back then two days later she came back and laid again i told the lad to just leave the hen and she sat the eggs and reared the youngsters which i then gave to the lad who raced them only to end up first and second birds home in his club goes to show that they can do some funny things,

[Guest mick bowler]

If he'd been a race bird it would have been pooled a few times,can do alsorts of tricks with a cock nesting on the floor,he'll protect it like hell.

Lindsay

 

I wish he was a race bird mate, as i usually find birds like this with a great paternal instinct make the best racers.