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I had to take my other half to urgent care last night. He decided to "work" on one of the old coops last night that we inherited with the property to start making some space for the new kids. Stepped on a rusty nail that went through his foot. Tetinus shot time last night! I won't post...

Three chicks from the hatch... (EE hen X Cochin Roo, Dad is the Cochin in my profile pic.) (Copper Maran) (Lavendar Copper Maran)

This is one of the EE hen/Cochin Roo chicks.

Looks like I just joined the EE/Cochin party. Had a little surprise during the Easter hatch along. Half the chicks that hatched from my EE hen have nice little fuzzy feet and half did not. So looks like we have two different baby Daddy's. LOL! I'll post some fuzzy feet chickie pics as soon...

Well, I think all that are going to hatch have hatched... Today is day 24. I'm going to leave the remaining eggs in another day just in case. But I'm not seeing any movement or hearing anything in them. So I think I lost a number of them the last few days, but I'm trying to focus on the...

hehe I think one of them of them already has the Zoomies! It's been chasing everything that moves. When we put our hand up to the brooder is comes running up and chases our fingers. Very cute! So we woke up to another surprise. Another late hatcher. This is day 24, so I guess it really...

Here are the first 4 to hatch. I've learned something very important tonight... Day old chicks will not stay still to pose for pictures!

#7 is out!!! We've got all kinds of cheeping and peeping tonight! We ended up with 4 from my EE hen that hatched. Don't know about the second two yet, but the first two... Well they have different baby daddy! LOL. One has fuzzy feet which can only mean one thing, my Cochin Roo that...

We are on day 23 with our batch. Two more chicks just hatched. One of them was an upside down chick and we almost did not notice her zipping at the bottom of the egg because I have the eggs in an egg carton after lock down, luckily we were able to help her along once we realized what was...

3rd chickie just hatched and we have another pip. My parents were here for my birthday that was last weekend and my Dad has been hovering over the incubator all afternoon. I think everyone has really enjoyed the hatch. Though the assisted hatch on #2 had us all a wreck, but that one seems to...

I'm also at low number right now. I had 24 in lock down and so far we have only got 2 chicks. One hatches just fine and the last one had to be an assist. It's in the incubator drying off. One other egg has pipped. But no activity on the others. Some of the eggs that I know had moving...

First Chick pipped late yesterday afternoon and popped her little head out of the shell at 4am. Yes, I was up. LOL Happy Easter everyone!!!!

Well a couple of days ago I guess my turkey hen was done laying, so kicked the chicken out and took over the nest of turkey and chicken eggs. I need to candle eggs in a few more days out there. She's got at least 12 turkey eggs in the nest.

23 eggs locked down tonight and happily placed into their little egg cartons. Let the pacing, drinking and staring at the incubator begin! Luckily I have Friday off from work so I can really obsess over it. Had 4 duds that I removed. A couple others are suspect, but I'm having trouble...

Has anyone ever had a broody chicken incubate a clutch of turkey eggs? We kept waiting for our turkey hen to take up the position and apparently one of the chickens was thinking the same thing. One of my EE hens has taken up to sitting on a clutch of 5 turkey eggs. Boy is she going to get a...