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Here are the first 4 (3 black with some white and yellow,barred rock and Australorp crosses, 1 dark brown, EE cross) that hatched. You can see some of their shells and the green egg that we were still anxiously waiting on to hatch: Then on day 2 or 3 I noticed that the chicks could get out...

Two black chicks poked their heads out of mama's feathers this afternoon, but she is still setting faithfully so left her alone to hatch the last 3, yeah!

So I closed her off in her own little pen and since she has done awesome, very vigilant. I candled the eggs when I put her in there and could see veins on most of them so that was encouraging but still didn't have much hope. So, I was leary to check them again but finally did a few days ago...

THanx so much for your share of knowledge KittyMomma. SHe was doing great. I decided not to block her off because I enjoyed the fact that she was getting down to eat and get a few moments of free ranging in etc. I marked the eggs with a marker in case any others were laid there then I'd know...

We were gone over the weekend and noone to get eggs for us, so I said to my husband "it will either be a mess when we get back or maybe it will put one of my young hens into setting mode"! Yeah! It seems to have worked in my favor!!!! But now what to do?! We got home to one of our Australorp...