Haffy our pure white Orpington hen has produced her first ever chicks. When I let her out on Saturday morning, there was a tiny bundle of dark brown fluff hiding underneath her white skirts. I gently lifted her off the nest to take a closer look and was told in no uncertain terms that she didn't appreciate being moved. To my surprise there was a very newly hatched, lanky, bald looking and still wet chick, doing a good impression of a drunk stumbling around the box.
This morning when went to see how the new family were doing, there was another chick, already dry, so it must have hatched some time in the night.
Hardy, photographed last year with me holding him, is the proud father, so the fact that the chicks are a very dark brown is rather surprising.
Haffy still has about 10 eggs unhatched and is determinedly sitting on them, so perhaps there will be more? 
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