- to the left you can see the baby chicken just hatched in the last 24 hours. No, that is not 'Mom & Dad' in the nest. Actually both are hens, the white one has sat on the eggs for weeks while the brown and black one spent most of her time in the nest next door copping an attitude everytime someone came near the nests. We do however know that the white hen has been setting on more than just her own eggs so it is very possibly the brown chicken is the mother in reality.
The two hens pictured here are 2 of the 10 Ameraucanas that survived of several raccoon and possum attachs we had this year. The Ameraucanas are the chickens that provide us with the beautiful pastel colored eggs so we hope to build the flock up again.
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