As soon as the weather warms up around here one of our oldest girls, Miss Clothilde, decides it's time to sit...eggs or no eggs. Last year we hatched nine little chickies and kept three. This year Miss Clothilde is acting as surrogate mama to seven of our friends Australorp and Leghorn cross chickies. Zahra has been keeping keen watch over the past twenty one days and giving frequent updates as each one hatched. She's in chookie heaven this bird loving girl of mine. Just today, two days after hatching, mama hen had her first outing, showing 'her' brood how to scratch, peck, keep up and keep out of the way of Mama's scratching feet. We'll have them for the next week and a half, handing them all (Zahra has different ideas) over to our friends so as they can get their little flock settled into their new home.
So precious new life.
Cxo
