[splash101]

Broody mum brought her 2 chicks out a couple of days ago, i think she needed a well earned stretch and some natural daylight. Capturing a photo is nigh on impossible.

Today she took them to meet the other chickens albeit through a weldmesh fence. She got absolutley no response from them but i did notice that now she is sitting with her chicks in sight of the other chickens whereas before she avoided them completley.

The incubator chicks are doing well, 1 welsummer and 11 Copper Black Marans. Well i say 11 CBM but there is a couple of rogue ones in there. 1 is yellow and bigger than the others and the other one looks alot like another welsummer. Either way, they are all doing what they should do.

I'd left the other 11 welsummer eggs in the incubator (today is day 23) and there is no sign of anything so will call it a day for them

[rcf100]

OMG how cute.  I'm a tad jealous as I'd love to hatch eggs, but I couldn't dispatch cockrels and I think my neighbour might complain!

[ANHBUC]

My 2 broodys have been having scraps with each other when out with their chicks. I have to step in as referee and make them go their separate ways.   

If they are either side of weldmesh they have a beak battle and strut up and down letting their chicks know they are not going to back down.  My smaller one Dotty was lower in the pecking order but she has stepped up to the mark showing what she is made of in protecting her chicks.