Brown Bonnet's babies

A rare sighting of Brown Bonnet’s surviving chicks.  She’s big, and really good at standing in front of them and hiding them. 

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They’re so tiny!  They’re smaller than her head.  It’s hard to believe a chicken can start out so tiny and get by.  But then, there’s hummingbirds.

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Apples’ little one is four days older than the other two, and it shows.

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The greenhouse is full of small chickens, jumping around and climbing on everything they can.

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Foxy is out of a job.  Hers are all grown up – just enough to not need Mom.

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The universal Hey, you’ve got something on your beak pose.

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I do?  Get it off.

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