Recent content by Mommy2Blaze

Oh I know! Yours are precious too!!!!!!

I am so stoked. We made it through having 2 broody hens. The first one hatched out 6 eggs and we have 4 chicks now from her clutch. They hatched on the first and all are doing great and growing like weeds! The second broody hatched out 6 chicks from her clutch but we have 3 left from them...

We got some photos of the chicks today. Here are a couple of the older ones. One took off across the coop so it missed the photo shoot lol. The one on the left definitely has the green easter egger legs lol. I am not sure which ones belong to which Mom though. Their feathers are coming in...

One of our first chicks just disappeared. I think maybe a cat got it. But we are being extra vigilant about locking up now. Today our second clutch has started hatching. One hatched but I think the mama accidentally suffocated it as the nest box is kind of tight. So we cleared her out a...

Oh they are so cute!!! Ours are just mixes between our hens which are 3 NH Reds, 1 Golden Comet, and 2 SLWs. I have no idea which eggs belonged to which hen lol. Our neighbor's EE roo is the Dad of them babies and some definitely have the EE look. I can't wait to see how they change. I can't...

Well we had to cull one of the chicks. It didn't absorb all of the yolk and stuff and we left it to see if it could and it never did. I brought it in and tried cleaning it up good and when I pulled the clump off after soaking it a cord like thing pulled out and lots of yolk looking stuff came...

I wish I knew. This is my first time hatching any at all. Our hens are a bit over a year old so maybe age does make a difference. I am not sure. I hate that you have lost them though. It is sad to lose little babies.