Relaxed Farming - our farm in your classroom

As much as possible we always use 'broody' poultry to incubate and hatch eggs for us. Broody poultry will lay a clutch of eggs and then start to sit on them to hatch them out. In this video you will see Katherine, our Bourbon Red turkey and a Red Orpington chicken both accepting eggs we have given to them by rolling them under themselves in preparation for the start of incubation...