They hatched!!!!! (DUW!!!)

Hmm, maybe time to let her have a go on some snake eggs. :P ;)

Congrats!! Nothing better than new chicks! :gj:

I'm trying not to convince myself to keep chickens in the backyard. I've been talking to some people online (online community) about keeping chickens in my backyard and I even have a plan for a small coop and run. You are not making things any easier. :P

The chicks are adorable. How do you sex the chicks, if that is even possible?

NICE chik-chicks! Wow, those banties are pretty small, huh? I doubt that the surrogate mama has any idea that those babies aren't hers :)
I have 2 roos now, and reallly want some ladies around to lay eggs everywhere. Mark and I gotta hit the auctions round here soon..!

Oh they are all so pretty, Kara! That last one though, with the freaky do....that is toooooo funny! :rofl:

Nice Chickens - I like the one chillin on the quad, that's my kinda chick :D

Congrats on the new little ones.

I love that last guy, he's got that Nikki Sixx thing going on:gj:

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Originally Posted by KLG

Dakota, my gold-laced Cochin went extremely broody on me, so I let her set some of my Silkie bantam eggs - look what hatched!! Two little black Silkies!
http://bloodpythons.com/chooks/chicklets.jpg

Here's she is being a good surrogate mom...

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Cute chics Kara!

Just curious..........Other than trying to keep a broody hen happy, why did you foster the eggs out?

I know Cochins are strongly inclined to broodiness, but the Silkies take it to a whole 'nother level! I think the ones we had a few years ago would have set on golf balls.

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Originally Posted by Louis Kirkland

Just curious..........Other than trying to keep a broody hen happy, why did you foster the eggs out?

I know Cochins are strongly inclined to broodiness, but the Silkies take it to a whole 'nother level! I think the ones we had a few years ago would have set on golf balls.

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Dakota (the GL Cochin) was the first of my girls to go broody...the Silkies were laying regularly but wouldn't set yet, and I found broken eggs on a couple of different occasions...didn't want to get THAT habit started!

Now I have 3 broody Silkies, and fortunately 8 cuckoo Marans eggs just arrived today from a breeder, so I'm going to let the fluffy muppets set them instead of using an incubator. No sense in letting good broodies go unoccupied!

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