Posts by ddcoyne

Just a quick update.   At the end of about a full 24 hour period, 15 of our 16 eggs hatched!  I was amazed! I couldn't believe our success rate! We have 15 beautiful, healthy fuzzy butts! No problems so far, a full 3 days...

Well, I got no responses here, but I do have 4 beautiful black and splash Silkie babies so far.

I'm also wondering how long before a pip or small crack starts to Zip, and if I've seen a pip and then nothing for a while, is something wrong?

Those babies are darling!!

Ok, so we have had 16 eggs in the incubator. Today is our 20th day. As of last night we saw a few pips and we're hearing LOTS of peeping and seeing a bunch of wiggling eggs. I've only noticed 2 eggs that I haven't seen wiggle, so I'm...

They look like girls to me, but they are still young, so its hard to be sure.

How old is he? He's adorable!

We have 15 14-week old chickens in our coop/run. Today a friend of ours dropped off her 1 year old hen. She used to have four chickens but her coop wasn't protected and coons got all but the one hen, Gracie. She knew we had chickens and...

Girl!!

My little BR pullet is, by far, the friendliest bird in our coop. She only has 4 toes though. lol