The Peahen's brood!

Woo hoo!

I'm about to leave work right at 3pm today and I get a call from the outside, so I pick it up.
"The peahen has chicks!"

Woo hoo! Last we knew, the peacock wasn't able, because of his lameness, to mount our peahen. So this is wonderful and cool! She'd had four eggs under her for the last four months, but we think rats or a snake got two of them, so to have any alive is a true miracle. She laid them directly on the dirt inside the barn - against a barn wall, unprotected and in a stall that the goats can access. We're thinking that putting hardware cloth around her stall and feeding her like crazy might keep the rats and the snakes away and protect her and her brood a little more. I'm THRILLED! This is SO cool...