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I hope this picture is large enough. Let me know if it needs to be bigger. :) This is our mama hen (RIR) with her 4 week old chicks. The chicks came from the fertilized eggs of different hens and the 'father' is a big black beautiful rooster which was given to us - I'm not sure of breed yet...

I have 17 Rhode Island Red hens and was told that they don't go broody, so we added 5 silkies to our flock ... all of a sudden 6 weeks ago one of the RIRs became broody and then last week another did! Our first clutch of eggs is just starting to hatch (we had to wait almost 3 weeks for fertile...