Just in time

Looks like I baby proofed the chicken pen just in time!

3 pochins & 1 cochin so far.  Momma is still sitting on a few eggs & the other aunt should be due in about 2 more weeks.

Baby proofing

Baby chickens that is.  As you know, in the spring I let a hen hatch out 3 pochin chicks. Unfortunately they managed to find a hole that had been torn in the netting previously surrounding my chicken pen to prevent younger chicks from getting out.  My barn cats quickly decided that since these where not in the pen they were fair game for dinner during hunting lessons. 

In the last 2 weeks i had both my black pochin & black polish decide to sit. So it was time to re-baby proof the pen. 

This time with some good chicken wire zip tied along the fence & stapled into the house.  Hopefully this will keep the future hatch safe. I'm pretty hopeful about this hatch of mostly pochins as i plan on  keeping them for replacement layers. 

Chicks!

Remember the sign of spring picture showing my little broody cochin?

This is what i found tonight.  About a week or so ago the black pochin decided to brood with my little buff.

This is what was underneath my buff. The little guy must have gotten out of the box so she decided to be the floor mother.  

I didn't get a picture but there's another under the black pochin dying off! I wonder how many we'll have?