My one-year-old in his Halloween 2012 rooster costume (of course) with a batch of Fall chicks.
I love letting my broody hens hatch chicks in the Fall, because those chicks will start laying as soon as Spring hits!
"The Mother Hen Miracle"
Two years ago my favorite hen, Scarlett Johannson, (a buxom buff Orpington) went broody at the beginning of March. I braved three-foot drifts to prepare my doghouse-cum-coop, practically a luxury penthouse for my hatching hens. Thinking of my own discomfort and...