I must say that before 2 years ago my chicken experience was limited to a childhood song and a cartoon rooster, named fog horn-leg horn. I thought they were cute and all, but now I am hooked! We got our first taste of chicken husbandry the year my husband was deployed and we got them as a distraction. Since then we have had about 48 chickens in subsequent years, we had our losses due to dogs and have had our first success this year at a broody hen. I am so excited! She is our smallest hen( a bantam) and she is sitting on the smallest, cutest eggs I've ever seen. Though her brood will be a strange one; her rooster is an araucana. They should be interesting... My daughter has her on a maternity schedule; eggs due to hatch in what she thinks is 25 more days. When we got this last batch we had hoped for some buff orphingtons(got a rooster and 2 hens in a coop together) but they are showing no signs of broodiness, Or a araucana match. But alas, we have bantams...oh well, you get what you can. Maybe they will have miniature green eggs. Well I thought I would attach some photos of the other chickens anyway, I love to watch them run around. They remind me of the movie 'Chicken Run'. They are always plotting.... 
this is willow with strawberry, she is one of our first chickens.
This is Marshal Dillan. He is our buff orphington rooster.
This is the father of the brood.
this is willow with strawberry, she is one of our first chickens.
This is Marshal Dillan. He is our buff orphington rooster.
This is the father of the brood. 
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