This sweet
mama hen has been our brooder- wanting so badly to hatch her eggs. When the
baby chicks arrived, she moved out of the nesting box to lie next to the fence
that separated the big girls from the little ones. For two weeks, she spent her
days and nights pressed up against the fence so to be closer to the chicks.
This week we let her in with them. She is so good -when we open the
door to the hen house in the morning, she moves to put herself between them and
the draft. They all nestle around her so sweetly. We have caught a few sleeping
on her back and we love it when she walks around with them on top of her. She is such a
good mommy and the 50 baby chicks seem very happy to have been adopted.
