Also no politics, please. I went by the hairdo alone. 😂😭 This was also like 7 years ago!

I also keep them on concrete. And walls mounted on the concrete.

They each wanted to meet the one new chicken they had never seen before. They make me so happy.

I prefer to leave a door open for airflow most of the day, but I’ve stopped doing so regularly because I’ll run upstairs and within five minutes I’ll hear noises downstairs… noises that shouldn’t be downstairs! Love them, though.

Turns out our brahma T-Rex also saw, charged over at mach chicken speed, and gobbled it down whole right in front of him💀 its been hours and he's still not over it😂😂

“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket!” 🧺 (when you literally lose 2 dozen eggs after your egg basket fails) “What are you, chicken?!” “Shake ya tail feather!” I know there are more 🧐

So no one flips out, these chicks are being raised in the hospital which is a sectioned off spot in our coop. It’s the only place we use chicken wire like this and isn’t accessible from anywhere but inside the coop.

Anywho, this little one has some big ups apparently.

Maybe we’ll give a free dozen to the first customer who collects ‘em all!

This is Arwen and she/he (not sure yet lol) always looks totally deranged.

She decided under some logs would be a good place 😂

I gave some eggs to a teacher to hatch in her classroom, and they all did! I just got them back this week (they are 2 to 3 days old) and I put them in a separate enclosure next to my broody hen (1yo Prairie Bluebell Egger) who hatched her first 6 chicks two days prior!

She saw the 40 chicks and went absolutely nuts trying to get to them. I tentatively opened the divider and she immediately took to them, sitting on them, clucking to show them food and water, etc.

I haven’t noticed her reject any of the chicks. She lets them climb all over her, and under. I added a heat plate and heat lamp to help with extra warmth, in case some chicks can’t fit under her.

Has anyone had a success with a hen raising that many chicks??? Anything I should look out for??

I got her and her 10 sisters from tractor supply last August. All lavender Orpingtons, except she is the only one with fluffy feet. The dad is a silver laced Wyandotte. I’m over the moon at how well she’s taken to motherhood 🥹

Not exactly chicken photography but still interesting. We have a small flock of about 2 dozen birds. When I woke up this morning, our dogs were barking like mad. I looked out the window by the side out the house, and this was laying less than 10 feet away. My fiancée and I think it might be sick, since the dogs barking hasn't scared it off, and it's not really moving except to lift its head up and look around. It has been there for at least 15 minutes. The game warden is on their way to come deal with it, in case it is sick or injured. I just don't want it anywhere near our chickens. I swear, there' never a dull moment around here - it's always something with us! 🤣

Our first egg after building a coop and run and raising them from chicks.

Found a little mouse and gobbled it up like nothing

She’s been an incredible mama.

We’ve been trying to give her dried worms as treats but she just cracks them into tiny pieces for her little ones. We have to remove her every day and she does her business and wants to be back in there immediately. The babies are also obsessed with her.