Ten chicks! Our last egg under the lights hatched out Wednesday morning at breakfast. So that makes seven in with Luna, and 3 from the 'bator. Crazy hatch rate -- far surpassing anything I'd expected. Now we just have to see who's a roo! We're hoping to keep as many of the hens as we can. For now these babies are in the incubator which is now a very tiny brooder, but I have hopes to introduce them to Luna and have her take them on. We'll see how it goes.
First up, this is a pic of bator baby #2 (won't it be lovely when they have names?) standing alone instead of being snuggled. Now, onto our last egg, which was from Tinkerbelle:
I love the way this chick looks. Reminds me of Tinkerbelle herself (which you can
go back to May 2007 to see yourself) but definitely has some wyandotte features as well. Should be interesting to see how the mixes develop, and how the BLRWs develop out -- most of the ones we have are the light "splash" version, but there are some beautiful dark versions as well.
First up, this is a pic of bator baby #2 (won't it be lovely when they have names?) standing alone instead of being snuggled. Now, onto our last egg, which was from Tinkerbelle:
I love the way this chick looks. Reminds me of Tinkerbelle herself (which you can go back to May 2007 to see yourself) but definitely has some wyandotte features as well. Should be interesting to see how the mixes develop, and how the BLRWs develop out -- most of the ones we have are the light "splash" version, but there are some beautiful dark versions as well.
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so fuzzy
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