So Eggscited! UPDATE

[homesteadingcowgirl]

congratulations, so very exciting MIne are supposed to be hatching next week (please, please, please)little chocolate eggers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. you should never put stuff away, b/c then u can't find i-apparently that is the theme in my living room, dining room, bedrooms, bathrooms, (I think you get the mental pic. by now!!!)

 

[Imissmygirls]

You have CHOCOLATES???
I want Welsummers! Looking for them locally, but the next time I have a broody, I just MIGHT buy eggs!

I am trying so hard to get organized... at least I am an improvement on my mother and I figure that is all one can expect in a generation. Evolution is slow.

 

[laughingllama75]

Sad news...the other 2 didnt make it. they got smothered, I think. both out of shell, still wet but dead and flat. a splash silkie and a blue showgirl.
But, i'm ok....just means I have to get more.
So, here are a couple cruddy pics, they are such wiggle worms already, and Momma was freaking out I took her babies. there is one pic of "Momma" she is a buff cohin bantam. she is in a metal wire crate, and a haybale on each side of her. see how she pulled down the hay to make a nest? LOL. she is on shavings, just cant see them.
I think I have a splash, 2 blue and one partridge.

 

[homesteadingcowgirl]

so very cool!!!!

i bought these eggs off of BYC-I haven't had great luck with that in the past, but was willing to try again please, please, please

 

[Farmer Kitty]

All are adorable chicks!

LL-I think you are mistaken, there are no wood shavings under her.

 

[laughingllama75]

She is too funny, the nest is about 8" high. tomorrow, after the chicks get thier sea-legs, I am going to take the nest out and hopefully she will accept that. the chicks will do better, if they dont have to climb a mountain to get a drink or food.

 

[Imissmygirls]

Wow... you are brave: telling a chickmom how to do her job. She'll probably bite you!

Update here: Mama deserted the one I helped hatch and the egg this afternoon, so I opened the tip of the egg, saw liquid and tossed it. The chick I brought in and held under a heat lamp for an hour or so. It's one eye was crusted so I dampened it and chirped at it. Actually the chirping seemed to do as much as the warmth. After an hour it was perking a little better but extremely wobbly. It was time to get something done so I went out, slipped open the door and tucked it under mama who was squatting right by the door, and got the heck outta there. An hour later she had moved and squatted to the opposite corner. I looked around, did not see little critter, and assume it managed to stay with mom.
I figure tomorrow AM will tell whether he makes it or not.
Hopefully it will make 7 out of an original 12 set. 2 were lost early on to egg-eating roosters who no longer exist. I think it's a pretty good set for our first one!
I doubt if I can tell many of them apart, though. They all look like chipmunks.

And I still want one Welsummer.

BTW, we went to the local fair tonight and DH saw a premade chicken coop he thought was pretty neat ( $1400, yeah pretty neat)
We also saw The Association in concert ( for all you old folks who remember them) ) They were pretty good for old men!!

 

[amysflock]

Congrats, you two, on your new chickies!

 

[wynedot55]

they are to cute.

 

[Imissmygirls]

If you count carefully, there are seven little fuzzy butts in the picture.