Rural Gardening: How to buy chicken eggs for eating?, 1 by Tammy

Tammy wrote:
I've had a few hens hide the eggs 'til they hatched. The first year it was in the middle
of Dec and snow was on the ground. I walked into the barn and heard that peep peep peep
and looked around. There was one on the ground! I kept looking and found her with her
babies in a box up high on a shelf. Then the next time I found the chicks the morning
after a racoon got in the barn the night before. He cleaned out all the hens. But the babies
survived! It was just the best sight of my life! I was devastated to lose them all and it was
like a sign to see the babies the next day. Last time this happened, the hen nested in a
small nook created between the barn & some hay bales. She had two babies. Here's
a picture of the happy family.