Mother Hen is a Barred Rock Hen. She should lay brown eggs. She is awesome. She's big and bold and has really tough looking feet.
Of all the chickens, she looks the most like a dinosaur to me. She's not as friendly as some of the other chickens but sticks close in the coop to keep an eye on us. She is the most fascinated by the camera and comes right up close to the lens. When we let the chickens free range (as we rarely do now that they have the Ritz Cooperton), she's the leader of the pack.
In other chicken news, another chicken is laying eggs! We collected a brown egg from the coop on Monday. It was a big egg. We're jazzed.
She looks pretty suspicious about the whole thing! I bet the new brown egg is hers.
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