Our broody just hatched her first ever baby, and the first ever hatch for our little homestead. We are so excited. Baby seems to be doing well, mamma is taking very good care to keep him protected from the other curious hens. She is sitting on 8 other eggs, and I'm excited to see how many more...
My favorite hen, Peach (1 year old), has just gone broody for the first time! Turns out the key to her heart was dispatching our pesky, crooked rooster 🙃 Here's to hoping I can stuff a bunch of blue, copper, and green eggs under her big, Brahma butt! I've successfully gifted her 4 out of 21 eggs...
i didn’t plan to hatch but my girl Phoebe had other ideas! She hid herself quite a large little nest of 11 eggs!
We had five hatch, 4 not fertile, 1 die hatching and 1 die about day 14.
Mum has done so well and now her sister has her own little clutch of five! So we are doing it all over...
Yesterday, we found out one of the two silkie hens laid three eggs in the nest-box. Today I found her already setting on them. I feel so proud, haha. I know a lot of chickens just lay eggs wherever at first, but she knew exactly what to do!
Eggies
Dad pic