Maude is having a very happy Mother’s Day. After she went broody last week, we got 5 Production Red and 3 Bantam chicks from the feed store and snuck them under her late at night. When Maude woke up in the morning, she was the proud mother hen of 8.
A mother’s love knows no bounds, and Maude doesn’t seem to mind one bit that she is being used as a living jungle gym. When she isn’t all puffed out with a brood of little fluffballs sleeping under her wings, there is always someone climbing all over her. Maude just sits there, unruffled.
I could watch this little family for hours, but my favorite thing is when Maude finds some grain in the straw and makes funny clucking noises to let the chicks know there is food there. They all run over and start scratching and pecking just like mom. Makes a mother chicken proud.
Happy Mother’s Day from our homestead to yours!
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