FIRST CHICKS BORN ON OUR FARM ~ DOB 3/22/2026

We had an Old English Bantam Hen hatch out 4-5 chicks and she is very protective of them. This is the first chicks born on our farm. We have had ducks and geese for a decades.

I scooped her and her chicks and put them in a rabbit hutch thinking it would be more protection and easy food for them since our chickens do have a barn they can go to if they want at night, but they all free range as they like because we have some excellent Turkish Kangals that don't play around with any predators. My plan is to introduce feed store chicks under hen tonight and hope she adopts them as her own. Then them all bond for a week and turn them back out to free range.

So this morning we went to TS & Atwood's and pickup up a few more bantam chicks, same age,  to try and have her raise them. 
New chicks went toward her, she came to them, pecked a couple near their heads so I removed them. Got em in a brooder now. I'm Their MOM.

​Since the Old English Bantam Hen decided she didn't want anything to do with the feed store bin Bantams, and I am having to be their Mom, I decided to go to Atwoods today and pick up 12 more to raise along with the original I picked up a few days ago.

I'll show her!!

A lady picking up some bantams right after me told me I have some
Seabright and Mille Fleur d'Uccle in my box.

Chick # 22 got a little wet in transport, but it is a frizzle also.