On the 13th July, Spike, our wonderful hen, hatched 4 lovely chicks.
I am totally enamoured with them, as they are so delightful to watch.
We don’t have our own cockerel so I had to buy the eggs in and swap them for her own. The little ones we now have are Rhode Island Reds.

We are currently keeping Spike and her brood in a separate, purpose built pen, once they are old enough to be sexed I will work out what to do with them.
I will keep the females if I’m lucky enough to have any.

And as if not to be outdone, another of our ladies went broody.
Blob made a halfhearted effort at it for 3 or 4 days but then decided to stay put.
We bought her some eggs too and she has now been incubating them for 10 days.
So we should hear the patter of more tiny claws again before too long.