Daryl and I have been talking about that we will have to grind feed for the cows soon, and today was the day to do it.
Now normally this isn’t such a big deal, but if you remember the earlier post that shown our peahen sitting on eggs on top of the mill, well grinding feed isn’t the best thing right now to do.
So we had a plan. We were both going to bring blankets with us and see if we can catch Sally and then move both her and the eggs to a safe place. And the safe place was the other side of the chicken coop that is empty.
OK, that was a good plan but could we pull it off? Well Daryl crawled up on the one side of the mill with the John Deere blanket and I went up the other side with the old white blanket. And guess what? When she was looking at me and trying to figure out why I was up there, Daryl grabbed her. And just like that she was going to be put into the chicken house with her eggs. When we got her off of the eggs, we noticed that her eggs that she was sitting on were close to hatching. And when I say close, I mean close! We could hear them chirping and there was little holes on the shells. Close? I don’t think you could get any closer do you think?
Well I took the blanket and gathered up the eggs and as both Daryl and I made our way to the chicken coop I was thinking what are the odds? I mean with our peacocks murdered just a couple of weeks ago and now possibly new little peacocks soon to be born? Awesome!
So I made a little nest with the blanket inside the chicken coop 
and realized about 20 minutes later that there was no way that the peahen was going to sit on any blanket! With a hole lot of honking going on from the peahen and little chirping coming from the eggs, I moved the eggs off the blanket and hoped for the best for them.
I checked back later and Sally still wasn’t sitting on the eggs, so I hooked up the heat lamp and tried to get them warm. I couldn’t hear much from the eggs at this point, so I picked them up and I’m guessing little chicks don’t like their eggs moved! They started to chirp more and I knew that they might still have a chance to live with the heat lamp warming them up.
And Sally was so nervous and kept flying towards the screens on the windows. I was worried that she was going to hurt herself so I used the blankets and made some curtains for this side of the coop. I seriously laughed to myself when I saw them because I was thinking what Daryl’s Mom would say if she saw some make shift curtains in her chicken coop!
Then as I was checking to see if the eggs were getting warm after church tonight, I could see one of them actually hatching! SCORE! So I ran back to the house and got my phone to video it. I wanted to add this video to this post – but I haven’t quite figured out yet on how to do it. But here are some pictures of the baby hatching that I also took with my camera. Pretty cool don’t you think? 
What started out just as a small project of moving the eggs and Sally to a safe spot, turned out to be an all day ordeal. And without knowing how many of the four eggs will hatch, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. I sure hope it’s more than just this little guy though.
Sally has now settled down and is taking care of the new chick and the other eggs for the night
and the cows are happy with their fresh ground feed. 
All is good on the farm.