The white hen has been laying and sitting on eggs in the long grass alongside the drive. Today we found her in the coop and when I nudged her to one side to look for fresh eggs, there were two chicks beneath her.
We have no roosters so this white hen must have been visiting next door. The chicks are only a day or so old and when I went to check on the hen's nest, I found more than a dozen abandoned eggs and two recently deceased chicks.
We decided to leave the chicks with their mother rather than hand-rearing them as we can manage another two birds in the flock.
But we picked out one of them so that we could have a closer look. The children were really gentle with the tiny chick and we're looking forward to visiting them again tomorrow.
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