Some of the chickens seemed to enjoy the heavy rain we had. It usually brings out the worms and grubs in the ground, There were doing a lot of foraging. I'm planning on building a new coop for them in a few months once I have all the wood sorted out and possibly be moving them the larger area at the bottom of the garden.

Sadly one of the 3 from the previous post died in the night. The other two are getting stronger by the hour now. I'm not sure if I will re introduce them to the mother hen yet though as they are no where near as strong as the ones that successfully hatched on their own.

So out of 11 eggs I had 9 hatch. That's not bad going at all.

Two that made it.

Some of the others with the mother hen.

The one chick had died in the egg. Not sure these last 3 poor mites are going to make it. It's pretty close,  One is stronger than the other two so she/he may make it. Going to try getting more heat on them now.

After the first 7 had hatched the mother hen left the last 4 eggs. 3 had started to chip but were very cold. I decided to bring them in under a light to try and give them some heat and hopefully they will have the strength to hatch all the way out. 

A few pictures of my chickens. This brown one is one from my last batch of chicks and some more photo's those are here http://www.scott-h.co.uk/new-chicks-in-the-pen

The cock in the first two photo's below is also from the first batch of eggs.

21 days ago one of my hens started to get broody so I put her in the small pen next to the man coop. A few started hatching this morning and are already running around scratching for food.

Here you can see the ones that are left and the two that have started to hatch.