Broody Hen

This morning when I went out to collect eggs/feed/water and just generally check up on the flock,  I once again found one of the polish ladies sitting on a cache of eggs.  This is the second time I have found her sitting on eggs.  The first time was when I was cleaning out the top layer of wet straw.  Today when I found her she was sitting the back cornor in a nest of straw so deep I could just make out the top of her head.  When I went to move her to get the eggs she pecked me pretty good, apparently she has guards too cause two of the other chickens came and pecked me too, I left her sitting on them for now, since I had to leave for work and did not have time to fight a broody hen this morning.  Part of me would like to let her sit on the eggs and see what happens the other part thinks it's still a little cold for babies and we do not have a brooder set up.

In other chicken news, we have enough eggs and they are big enough that we are going to start selling them, hubs and I will be working up a sign to put out this weekend when we are both home.  Hopefully we will get some customers.  So far, We have sold half a dozen to a co-worker of mine and have given some to family during the christmas holiday.  This feels like the next logical step and is the next step in getting the farm to pay for parts of itself.   Any profits from the eggs will go toward feed for the flock.  Pretty exciting for us here at Ridgetop.

In just over 2 months time we will be adding to our flock with some more chickens, turkeys and 2 gosling's.  I would like to do bee's as well, but feel like I should take a class on bee keeping before just jumping into that.  Looking into that as we speak.  Come spring we'll be looking like a real farm.