Thus spoke Mickey when I asked him why he wanted to go to Tractor Supply last week. It seemed a little strange to me -- we had just opened a new bag of pellets -- but hey, any excuse to go to Tractor Supply! So he put a bag of laying pellets in the cart. And then he picked up a bag of chick starter feed.
Wait, WHAT?! Are you serious?!
Yup, that morning, he had spotted our mama hen off of the eggs she has been sitting on for a month. Instead of sitting on eggs, she was sitting on two chicks!
And while she hasn't completely abandoned the remaining eggs, she spends most of her day leading the chicks around and teaching them how to scratch for food -- she scratches, then steps back as they move in to look at and munch what she has scratched.
They move ridiculously fast!
Soooo much better than us playing mama hen to chicks!
How exciting! So many babies!
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