RESPECT YOUR HEN

Local chicken are easy to rear as they do not require much care other than providing them a warm place to sleep during the night and ensuring that they do not destroy your neighbor’s crops.

There is one unique thing about local chicken which you need to know so as not to enter into enmity with your chicken.

A hen laying an egg

 A local chicken finds a serene environment to lay her eggs in preparation to have a generation meaning this selection is carefully done.

In most cases the cock will accompany the hen to locate a favorable place to lay her eggs away from enemies.

Eggs on a nest

Once if finds the ideal place, it starts to lay the eggs and counting them one after another each day as it leaves and enters the laying nest.

A strict hen will not entertain disturbance on her eggs. Every time she leaves the nest after laying an egg, she carefully examines the position of her eggs and when she returns the following day, she does the same.

A hen with her chicks

 Once she discovers interruption on her eggs she will sound a warning and give a benefit of doubt but on subsequent discovery of disturbance, she will decide do quit and find another location to lay her eggs.

A hen and a cock enclosed in cage withing the farm

If she doesn’t find a place within the house, he may choose to try her luck outside the house and this exposes her to more risk.

Kindly respect your hen’s eggs. Do not be an early predator please.