Chicken nursery

Proud mama Cuckoo in her recycled olive barrel house.

When the Cuckoo Moran hen turned broody we eventually got her some chicks - 3 Dominiques and 3 Black Wyandottes. She accepted them, settled in and was an excellent and attentive mother.

As we didn't have a safe place to keep her in the chicken yard, so we gave her in a recycled olive barrel for nesting and put her and the little ones in a barn stall. At night we could close them all up to protect them from varmits.

Cuckoo and her young'uns locked up for the night.


The chicks did well, and are now out and about, running in their little gang of teenyboopers. At night they sleep in the chicken house with the big girls. Cuckoo is back to laying her beautiful dark brown eggs.