two new chicks!

Day before Christmas, we  discovered two little chicks, newly hatched by a rather scatty  black,  mother hen. Was  it worth the effort?! Another smaller hen recently produced 12 gorgeous chickens and was a great mother, fussing and  caring for her brood, who  have now graduated to the big hen house. Meanwhile, the latest chicks are scuttling around in our forest at the top of the garden, sometimes being stood upon by mother hen, who doesn’t appear to have many mothering skills, such as clucking to her chicks and showing them how to get on in life. My grand-daughter Vienna, wanted to take the chicks from the careless mother hen and look after them herself, but as she has  now gone away on holiday, it didn’t eventuate. There is one black chick and one yellow  one, a real story-book pair!  HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM  HAPPY HENS!

 

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