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Everyone keep this little one in your prayer's please. This is Fluffy's chick with the splayed legs. I just got hobbles on her and have her in a cup to try to keep her upright in the brooder. I have no clue what I am doing her people but I will try. I will leave her in the cup for a hour, get...

I have 7 out of the 9 chicks in the brooder beside my computer desk. My room is filled with the sound of happy and contented chicks. Oh how I have missed that sound. I have pretty much left them alone after putting them in the brooder but closely monitored. They are all eating and drinking and...

Hey everyone, popping in for a update. Right now 9 have hatched. All 6 of poppet's eggs have hatched. I have also had a white curly chick hatch and Fluffy's egg hatched. The fluffy chick, I am guarded on it's prognosis. It had difficulty hatching, and lost some blood in the process. That alone...

3 musketeers are in the brooder. The last silkie to hatch is still in the incubator. I have 2 more pipped. I may have a fluffy chick before midnight. Adele is a little polkie and is a Mr. P daughter. Clean legs, no double toes and going by the bump on the head will have a awesome poof as a...

I can sort of make out chipmunk markings in them. That is making me think partridge. You know they could end up looking like Poppet as adults. She is a type of partridge, either silver or black not sure of the technical name for her coloring. If I end up with several little Poppet look-a-likes...

Silkies and color genetics. I have decided there is 1 hard rule for color genetics and silkies. Take everything you THINK you know and throw it out the window. I have 4 chicks right now. The white Betty chick which is not a surprise. I also have 3 chicks from Poppet x Branch. When they hatched...

It came from a unmarked egg so from Poppet. My first of hopefully 6 Branchlet's.

And then there were 2. Adele, Betty's chick is going to be trouble. Barely out of the egg and already pulling her siblings feathers.

Welcome to the world little one.

Betty's chick is 2/3rds of the way out and it is white!!

Now we have the start of the zipping process with the Betty egg. It is 7:30 my time. I predict by 9 it will be out.

Dishes are done, floors swept and mopped and laundry is going. I am done for the day. Now, I have my tv on in the living room and I am going to sit and stalk the eggs.

None of us can answer this question. It is up to your girls. Odds are in your favor that they have already sat for a week on dud eggs. They are committed. Now, I have known of broody hens giving up after only 2 weeks so the chance of them stopping is there. We are not going to worry about that...

And we now have 3 pips. I think it is a Poppet egg. Multi-tasking here at it's finest. Sweep a minute, stare at the incubator for 5. Mop the swept spot, stare at the incubator.

I should be sweeping and mopping right now. Instead every time I hear a peep I go to the incubator to sneak a peek. The Betty chick, it's pip is big enough that I can see the tip of it's beak. It could be a Betty x Mr P which would make it 25% silkie and 75% polish. It could also be a Bert x...

Quick, someone, anyone drop off a silkie chick or two to Alex while he has temporarily lost his mind. These are my preciouses in the incubator and I have to hoard them for a few months. Pullets, I need pullets. Now, if 1 of them wants to be a little cockerel, I am open to it, but just 1 mind...

Shew, I can breathe now, turner is out and lockdown has begun. I set 28 eggs, 14 have made it to lockdown, 8 of them shipped eggs. Now comes the time that stresses me out the most, hatching. My little silkie nuggets you have came so far, please do not quit on me now. Going into lockdown we...

Hey everyone, I finally have a moment to sit down and reply. @BY Bob Congrats on sourcing eggs. I look forward to following along. If I remember they are coming from 2 different sources but both arrive today right? If it were me, once you have both at home take a flashlight and check for...

I am confident the lighter colored one, Little Chicken 1 is a pullet. I hope you keep her. Ole Momma Hen had so much potential to be a friendly chicken most of the time if her circumstances had been different. Little Chicken 1 may be a mean broody in the future, but a sweet heart when she is not...

I will try to finish Momma Hens story this week. We started back going down grandma's to clean and I've been very busy. The rest of her story may not include pictures. To get to the pictures I was thinking of using I also have to go back through a majority of my Gracie photo's as well and I...