The silver spangled hamburg is called Rae. She's a dab hand at producing chicks whether I want them or not. The frizzled bearded thing is on her first laying season and so far she's failed to hatch out one clutch (our fault, we didn't realise she was broody and shut her away from her eggs

They're doing a good job of raising the chicks together. No fighting between them, they just get on with it.