Our first birth.....

A couple of weeks ago, one of our hens got a little broody and just decided she was going to sit on all the eggs that were laid in the coop. we didn't move her to a broody coop and we wern't even convinced that she would keep sitting, but she did, so we left her, on about 10 eggs in the end.

TodayI walked down the garden and heard a "cheep cheep"..... I went to go check on our little broody hen in the coop who we estimated was due at the weekend.... Lo and behold, this little one apparently couldn't wait that long.



Of course, after an hour of warming and drying he looked a little more like this....



Hopefully we will have next years laying birds from this batch of chicks. The broody mum is still sitting determinedly on the rest of the eggs, who will probably hatch for the rest of the week now.