Good News, Bad News

Just before we went on vacation last week we had a Deleware hen hatch out three eggs - a first for the ranch.   Sadly all three died before we got home.   The children of course were heart broken as they were really looking forward to seeing those little balls of fluff grow up! 

Then tonight Ari discovered a Speckled Sussex hen with 15 newly hatched chicks and two more eggs under her hiding in the thistle patch in Sunny & Stormy's yard.  We moved her along with her chicks and eggs into the empty kidding stall in the doe barn in an effort to provide her and those cute little fluff balls a little more protection from the wild critters.    If even half of them are hens that will more than double our flock and mean I either sell them or build another

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