Bonus chicks
We've been missing a hen for
weeks.
Turns out she's been on
maternity leave. She found a nice spot in the barn and is now taking
care of 8 new bonus chickens.
Maybe we'll make this
location more chicken friendly for any future nesting.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Cool. What an easy hatch! My grandfather kept cochins and they used to hatch little chicks all the time.
Michelle --- Our rooster is either a black australorp or an australorp/marans mix. (We had both types of mother in the flock, and we didn't run a maternity test.
) So these guys are either half australorp and half marans or three-quarters marans and one-quarter australorp.
We've had a terrible time getting hens to go broody on our schedule, so I know what you're going through. This is our first really successful one (except for a cochin who hatched one chick a few years ago).