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

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...
http://bloodpythons.com/chooks/dakota1.jpg

Eggs from some of my standard girls, including a nice double-yolker from one of my Turkens:
http://bloodpythons.com/chooks/breakfast.jpg

Some of the "mostly growns" - these girls should start laying in July or August...
"Powder" - a Speckled Sussex
http://bloodpythons.com/chooks/powder.jpg

"Wendy," the Salmon Faverolle, and a yet-unnamed silver laced Wyandotte
http://bloodpythons.com/chooks/wendy1.jpg

One of the Australorps, both silver laced Wyandottes, and a Barnevelder (the brown one, back right). Still in the naming process on some of these girls. :) You can also kind of see "Marzipan" hiding in the trees (back left), she's a lightXdark Brahma cross.
http://bloodpythons.com/chooks/australorp.jpg

And because I'm also a sucker for ornamental birds...
"Puck" - a gold-laced Sebright bantam. These are tiny, males are 26 oz at maturity.
http://bloodpythons.com/chooks/puck.jpg

One of 2 gold-laced Polish that I recently acquired...they are SO goofy!
http://bloodpythons.com/chooks/polish1.jpg
http://bloodpythons.com/chooks/polish2.jpg

Great pictures Kara. I miss having chickens. I love that Sussex girl!

AAAAWWW

how cute

I LOOOOVE bantams, and silkies! they are soo neat.

You got some good lookin chickens! I know a couple of Mexican families out here that would die for those chickens, no joke!

There is a very large chicken community out here

Dang little chicks couldn't wait a couple days? :rolleyes: :giggle:

They are super cute little ones, and I love the eggs. Now all of a sudden I feel like having a chocolate bunny. :aww:

OMG their SOOOOO cute! I love baby birds :D

Cool! My uncle had some polish chickens but a dog broke into the coop and killed them. they are cool looking birds though!

Those little silkies are just too cute!!! :aww: Someday we will have a few assorted bantams - silkies are high on my wish list! I love the others as well - especially that Polish!

those babies are so cute!!!! Puck is a hottie! :D

Nice looking chickens :gj:

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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