From Beginning to End

It's just been so much fun over the last three weeks watching the cycle of life.

One of our chickens went broody.  She would lay an egg and then stay on the nest....for a while.  Then the next day she was back and would stay a bit longer.  Finally she was staying even when other hens would come in and lay their eggs beside her.  It was obvious she wanted to set a clutch.  Finally, she decided to spend the night on the nest and we knew she was ready.

So instead of having eggs all out of order one day at a time, we took the eggs from everybody for one day and put them under her.

She was perfectly okay with this arrangement and settled in. So we waited......and waited.....and waited.... And yesterday our patience was rewarded with.....

We only have three at the moment from this clutch, and another one hatched in the clutch another hen has next to hers.  We are expecting more at any time.  In the meantime, however, we had two hatch out in the incubator.  We're starting to have chicks spring up all over.