New parents huddled over their keets in the rain

The influx of baby animals continues. This time with the first actual births on the farm. Our broody guinea hen hatched out her eggs. Of the five remaining eggs, three hatched. If you remember, she started with 23 of her own eggs and 1 turkey egg. About 2.5 weeks into it she lost 15 eggs, including the turkey egg, to a predator. She sat on the remaining nine eggs until today, at which point there were only five left (something must have come last night for the other four). Three hatched and now there are tiny little guinea keets running around chasing her.

Her timing has been less than perfect. First she chose to sit on the eggs through a serious heat wave. Then she hatched out on the first rainy day we've had in months. It literally rained all day, and it wasn't very warm either. She managed through it though and we're very proud of her. She lost a ton of body weight over the course of those four weeks and now she has three healthy babies. We want to see if she can raise them.