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

[cassandra]

Hmm, maybe time to let her have a go on some snake eggs.

[Epona142]

Congrats!! Nothing better than new chicks!

[Jay_Bunny]

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.

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

[Ginevive]

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..!

[frankykeno]

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

[STORMS]

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

[West Coast Jungle]

Congrats on the new little ones.

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

[Louis Kirkland]

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!


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

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.

[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.

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!