For the last three weeks, our white hen has been sitting on five eggs.

Yesterday I went to the coop to check up on her and one was hatched, but dead (and what a nasty, smelly mess that was!); one egg was missing completely - no shell, no chick, nothing; and one was hatched - the chick was still damp. The other two eggs were pipping.

I decided that I wanted the family in a more secure enclosure. Some psychic sense made the crows from the nearby trees (the evil ones from gosling-killing fame) alight already on the coop roof.

I made up a cage and box for Mum and her new baby, and her two pipping eggs and left them to it. The eggs were cheeping when I moved them :))

Anyway, this morning, we now have three cute little fluffy yellow baby chickens. So cute! I shall give them a week or so in the nursery coop and then move them back into the big one.