I admit it, I’m addicted to chickens. I love there silly antics, enjoy hearing the rooster crow, love the cute fluffy chicks, enjoy the fresh eggs and think they are just beautiful!! We have a limit on how many chickens we can have here but it’s really hard to stay within those limits. There are so many rare, unique and interesting breeds of chickens not to mention the fun of incubating or watching a mother hen being broody. I have to keep myself in check! We currently have 16 chickens, 4 of those are roosters. Our flock is a mixture of many breeds from the common Rhode island red and Barred rock to the ultra rare Gold Campine. This past spring I decided to try incubating and hatched 6 chicks, 3 roosters and 3 hens. Then our Giant White, Abigail, went broody. I’ve never had a broody hen so it was all new to me. At first we tried taking all the eggs away from her but she kept stealing new eggs, then we gave her some wooden eggs but she wouldn’t give up trying to hatch them. We were told we would either have to give her some eggs to hatch or separate her from the other chickens with no eggs until she stopped being broody. We finely gave in and let her have 3 eggs that we have put X’s on so we know which ones are hers and which are ours. We certainly do not need more chickens but I’m excited none the less. Now we wait!!