Nearly 2 weeks?

It seems that due to my bad blogging habits, nearly two weeks has gone by since these guys hatched.  I promise to get much better pictures tomorrow but here is one to give you an idea of how fast they have grown :)

Those Brahma's are NO JOKE!!  They are HUGE and growing like weeds.. I really hope people buy them soon or I am going to be stuck with a huge feed bill! ;)

A tough week

What a tough week this has been.  I had to put down our black chick Lawless.  She developed trouble walking a few weeks ago and it got progressively worse.  It was the only humane thing to do. :(

I ended up with 19 babies from the previous hatch.  1 Wheaten Maran, 1 Dark Brahma (named Crush.. but that's another story), 5 Blue-Laced Red Wyandottes and 12 Lt. Brahmas.  Also 2 of the 3 eggs I gave to Jenn's broody Gesine hatched (Maran and Lt Brahma).  Overall, not a bad hatch for shipped eggs.

May 2nd I set those LOVELY EE and D'uccle eggs you see below.  I started with 41 and weeded out 13 so far that either quit or weren't developing.

May 10th I set 20 more pure-bred Americauna eggs.  15 LF (large Fowl) and 5 Banties (bantam or miniature chickens).  These have a chance to be either black, blue or LAVENDER!!!  I SOOO want lavender babies I cannot even explain to you however it is a very very small chance that any of these might be Lavs.  The lady just took the Lav roo out of the pen and put in this beautiful blue roo.  Birds can retain sperm for several weeks to use as needed so there is a chance the Lav could be "in business" even when he isn't there.. LOL

Well.. here are some baby pictures from the last hatch, now almost 2 weeks old.. I know I know.. bad blogger.. ;)

Lt. Brahmas

a dark BLRW

In the Brooder

A Splash BLRW

All my BLRW

Crush the Dark Brahma

Wheaten Maran

and another..

Woke up to a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte chick in the bator!!  I have 3 more that are pipping too.  Pictures to come :)

What a day!

Well, I went to bed around 12:45 this morning with 7 pips.  Around 3:45 the local police department called looking for my husband because someone had tried to break in to the restaurant he works in and he's on the emergency call list AND... I had a baby out!!  10 minutes later... ANOTHER!.

We worked on the coop ALL day so I didn't have much time to keep checking but as of 10:00 tonight we have 10 light Brahma babies :)

AND..

My eggs that I bought the other day arrived and they are BEAUTIFUL!!

Blue EE egg and a Mille Fleur D'Uccle bantam egg

My lovely EE eggs with an Egglands Best white egg for color comparison :)

I LOVE my egg babies.. LOL

Tired of waiting...

I have been sitting next to the bator waiting for these little fuzz butts to get into the world AND... nothin!

There are now 4 pips but no zipping (breaking around in a circle to get out) and most importantly NO FRIGGIN CHICKS...

I need to sleep tonight... oh well..

HATCH DAY HAS BEGUN!

Around 12:15 pm today I was standing by the incubator and heard PEEPING!!

I looked and looked and found.....

Again, non-chicken folk.. a "pip" is a tiny crack/break in the egg shell that the baby has made to start their way out of the egg.

This is a good sized Lt. Brahma egg!

I just checked again about 10 minutes ago and now we have THREE pips.  I think all three are Lt Brahma's but I know that two of them are.  All eggs are marked but one of them is turned so I can't see the marking.  BOO!

Anyway.. I will keep posting pictures etc as it happens!  May I can get a good video!

6 Weeks Old

Here are some new photos of the "old" babies who are 6 weeks old this weekend...

Speck

Flip

Sunny

Sunny

Wobble

Wobble

Guinness

Guinness 

Wobble and Speck

Lawless

Lawless's feathery legs

Lawless's Pretty face