Chicks in the henhouse = Ray needs to go

White Vera's first three chicks were hatched yesterday and a fourth one tootled out from underneath her this morning. She's still got three eggs beneath her, but as she's already left the nest with her entire brood, we reckon those won't hatch.

One predominantly black (looks like a penguin!), the rest grey

This is of course fantastic news, but this also makes the removal of Ray the rascal rooster high priority. We can't have him bullying hens or chicks around the food. Youtube is now my best friend, as none of us have done this before. Plenty of grisly videos out there...