Managing Hens

 Hens! They are crazy. I'm fortunate enough to have hens that want to be mamas -- they want to be broody and set a clutch of eggs for 21 days and the commit to a bunch of air-headed baby chicks for weeks. 

Henny Penny is the head mama hen right now. She's the best mama; other hens will give up on a clutch of eggs after a week or two, but not Henny Penny! We started with eleven eggs, but to be honest I didn't know if Roo-Roo, our young rooster, was doing his job ... were those eggs fertilized? It turns out only two of them were!

Four other hens decided they wanted to be broody too -- four! Then hunkered down with Henny Penny in the box, piled on top of each other, and piled on top of those 11 eggs. It was a circus. Hens stop laying eggs when they are broody, so ... well, if you watch the video below, you'll see. If you advance to 3:45 minutes in, you'll skip straight to the chicken part:

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Happy Friday, all!