Three more chicks hatched!
Aug 10, 2022
3 minutes
Border Bulletin, with Andy Johnson
IT’S probably anticlimactic for the vast majority of fanciers, but for me to have hatched another three chicks is incredibly exciting.
As I write this in mid-July, the oldest of the three had been weaned a week or so; the second – same parents – had just fledged; and the third had been fostered to the same parents again. I’d not fostered before, so I was a bit nervous, but as a hen on another nest had abandoned two days before due date, I thought I’d nothing to lose.
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