The Speckled Sussex hen is at it again…

She has successfully laid a clutch of eggs and has sat on said nest for about twenty-one days and now has a cute little brood of yellow & brown cotton-ball-shaped chicks running around the inside of my horse trailer…

It’s a safe place for them…

Well not totally safe, but better than a lot of places…

What the hen didn’t think about…………………………was what to feed them after they hatched out, while they were still inside the trailer……………

………..and then where to get a water supply for the little puff balls?

…………………………………………..enter moi………………………………………….

I have dutifully mashed up layer pellets and dog food kibbles with a hammer and added a couple shallow plant pot drip plates for water (because the silly little boo boos will drown their little selves in a minuscule amount of water if you give them half a chance).

So the proud/puffed-up/strutting hen is as happy as a pig in……………………..well, let’s just say she’s real happy….

She has about fourteen babies………………they’re hard to count……………they move too fast…

They have their appropriately-sized, hammered food…

And miraculously they have a constantly re-filling (shallow-enough) pan for the non-marshmallow peeps to use for drinking……….

The mama hen even had the audacity to attack me when I opened the trailer door to replenish their food and water this afternoon.

I had quick enough reflexes to hold up the aluminum water pitcher in front of my face……………

……………………..she’d better not push her luck……………………..

……………(I’ve never been known for my tolerant patience.)

I’m not planning on taking the horse trailer out any time soon………so I think her brood will be able to feather out in there before I have to chase them out.

They are cute little boogers though, aren’t they?………..