It's been a rough night and no-one has had much sleep, especially me. My little babies have been very restless all night preparing to enter the world and they have been cheeping for ages !
This morning, Mummy and Daddy came to see me but I wasn't happy with them peering over the nestbox and growled for ages trying to make them go away and leave us all in peace.
Nevertheless, Mummy took a video and if you listen very closely, you can hear me growling and my babies cheeping 
It isn't quite time for them to fully hatch yet but if you come back in a few hours, we should have the first baby photos available.
Only two days to go now until my little baby chicks arrive !
Whilst I popped out for a light snack earlier, Daddy came to have a check on my clutch of eggs and noticed that one of the eggs was moving slightly, side to side. He dashed to fetch Mummy so she could have a look but the chick had settled down by the time they got back and it wasn't moving anymore 
Probably just a little restless and getting ready to start pipping and unzipping the shell.
I did a rather silly thing this morning. In my haste to get out of my nest box and go downstairs for something to eat, I accidentally stepped on one of my precious brood of eggs and broke it 
I am heart broken
Daddy had to remove the broken egg this morning so now we are down to only four eggs left.
I promise to look after them all as we are down to 6 days now before they hatch.
It's Mary here, one of the chickens living at Whiteborough Farm Cottage.
I have been feeling a bit broody lately and have been sitting on some egges for what seems like months but they haven't hatched yet, don't know why
Today, mummy and and daddy decided it was time for me to become my own mummy and bought me a new house to live in. You can see a picture above.
They also got five fertile eggs from Grandma Madge next door and put them in my new nest box for me to sit on.
Hopefully, in 21 days, I will have some baby chicks to look after
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