Oh, and surprise chicks.
DH does all the feeding and chores (I know, I'm spoiled) so I don't necessarily look in all the coops. I was out at the chickens this morning and heard the chick distress call. I started looking around to narrow down the sound and standing at the top of the ladder in the Icelandic coop were two chicks calling "Mommy, come and save us!" I went into the coop to be the surrogate mommy and they ran down the ladder. That would have been fine until they poked through the fence next door into the Orpington pen where they got pecked. I saved them from them from there, then they ran next door in with the Cochins. Fortunately the behemoths in there ignored them. Then they ran through the next wire in with the Longcrowers, who also ignored them. They are now in a bin in the back bedroom with the call duckling that hatched a few days ago. I'll have to set something up for them with their mom.
Then I looked in the bantam BR coop, there are SIX broodies in various places on the coop floor, each with a huge pile of eggs!
The bantam black rock chicks are still happily cruising around the pen with dad, mom and aunt.
Dang chickens (or DH for not taking eggs away from broodies)!
