Our broody hen



Abigail sitting on her clutch of eggs



   Abigail is our Giant white Hen, she is around 5 years old, maybe closer to 6. She is a lesson in buying baby chicks from a mixed group at a feed store. I wanted to add a few more chickens to my flock one spring and decided to just get 2 or 3 from a local feed store. They had a mixed group of "brown egg layers"

   I did not consider that they might not all be egg laying type and picked out 3 cute little fluff balls of unknown breed. Two of those fluff balls turned out to be meat birds, Abigail and our Dark Cornish hen Izzy. Technically they do lay brown eggs when they decide to lay but they are not good layers by any means!!! Just this year Abigail decided to go broody and she is currently sitting on three eggs we allowed her to have. If she stays with the eggs they should hatch around the 12th of September. I've never had a hen hatch out her own eggs so I am excited to see what happens! Keeping my fingers crossed :)