Helping Aunty Dorrie to keep her chicks safe – an epic failure

December 9, 2013 by sleepinghorse 19 Comments

• Trying to get Aunty Dorrie to sleep and lay her eggs in the coop and not outside in the bushes? – Failed
• Trying to find where Aunty Dorrie was sitting on a clutch of eggs in the bushes? – Failed
• Trying to keep Aunty Dorries’s single chick alive in the wild? – Failed
• Finally capturing Aunty Dorrie and getting her safely in a coop with some “almost ready to hatch” eggs for her to sit on? – Success
• Trying to get Aunty Dorrie to stay sitting on those eggs? – 50% success, 50% failed
• Trying to get Aunty Dorrie’s second clutch of eggs to hatch? – Failed (one egg hatched but the chick wasn’t strong enough and died shortly after. The other two eggs didn’t hatch. She must have been off them too long.)
• Trying to get Aunty Dorrie to realise the coop she has spent the last two weeks in, is a safe place to sleep? – Failed