More cute chickies!!! OH NO!
You guys have me wanting to hatch more and I promised my husband no more. :P
I wonder if I could sneak a couple of duck eggs into the coop under another broody tonight? Hahahaha
Congrats!!! Excellent work for your EE mama... give her some treats for all her hard work.
We have a second one hatching now. Found out this came from an Blue EE pen mixed with Marans. Even an EE frizzle roo was in the pen. So they could be pure, or mixed babies. This second one is all...
No they didn't use a maran for the BLRW. Here's some history on how that cross came to be. It was from a wyandotte and brahma to get it:
http://www.hpbaa.com/Wyandotte_History.html
It's supposed to be a black copper maran... its more copper in color then black at this point. May be mixed, but the egg shell is the dark chocolate color, so I'll keep her. :)
I just went out and checked on my silkie who's been sitting on some Black Copper Maran eggs I was given. They were washed and refridgerated and we were unsure they would even hatch. It was more to keep momma silkie happy. Well, she never ceases to amaze me. We're on day 21 and I went out to...