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Quote: Day Thirty I found out today JUST how good a mom Buffy can be. The GrandChick, Sam, is now 9 days old. Today Buffy took the chick out of the nest, out of the coop, out of the run and into the yard. ALL day long. I removed the four un-hatched eggs from her nest whilst she was...

Day Twenty Seven Well, let's get to the pictures, first! GrandChick, who will be named "Sam" from now on, is still the only hatchling. Sam - who could be Samantha or Samuel - was a little shy. The little goober kept going in and out of the nest box as Buffy was turning to inspect her...

Day Twenty Six The little peepster was peeking out from under Buffy's feathers this evening. (Good, because I WOULD have lifted her up again to look for it!) Still four eggs there. I think Friday evening (tomorrow) is the Egg Discard Date. I wonder if I should do an eggtopsy on 'em? Or...

Day Twenty Five Well, given that yesterday was SO chaotic, I wanted to check on GrandChick right away when I got home from work. I gave mozzarella cheese to the flock, and carried a small container of mealworms back to the A-Frame coop for Buffy. No chick. No peeping. I'd locked up the...

I don't have a good flashlight to candle them.... if nothing else hatches by Friday, I'll have to take them away from her and discard 'em. I am HOPING she'll start being a mommy instead of a broody, then.

We are re-united. I spent some time IN the blackberry bramble, chopping my way deeper into it, in a determined direction to flush Little Cross-Country Runner out into the open run area. Several other chickens began to gather, interested in the ruckus in the blackberries. Oh, my, this is a...

Day Twenty Four OMG! I dunno what kind of MOTHER Buffy is (we know she can hatch an egg) - because the GrandChick is loose in the run! Buffy is on the four eggs in her nestbox, still puffing up and chittering at me when I check on the eggs' status. But her chick is loose in the run! Out...

Day Twenty Three This is Buffy yesterday, when she moved all the eggs out of the nest box to sit on them, perhaps cooler than inside the box. Well, it's getting that hot today, too. She's now moving out of the nest box again. Wow, I haven't seen her fluffybutt for over 3 weeks... she still...

Day Twenty Two Update Well, I've seen more of my GrandChick, now. Even got a brief video to share!!! It got to 103 degrees here today - just miserable. Buffy actually moved OUT of her nest box, eggs under her and all. She wasn't happy about me trying to look for more chicks or check on the...

Day Twenty Two Thank you, everybody. I'm still super jazzed and all giggly. Last night I went back out to check on the new mother and baby. No sight nor sound of the chick. Of course, I immediately imagined it was smothered under Buffy's bulk. After all, this is her first time, maybe she...

WE HAVE A CHICK!!! We have a chick! It's just after 6 p.m. Saturday, and we have a CHICK!!! It's still under her, but I saw it when I lifted one side of Buffy's fluffiness! OMG! OMG!!! ...... I need a drink..... I'm gonna smoke.... I saw the chick, let go of Buffy's fluff and told...

Day Twenty One Afternoon report: No chicks yet. Buffy has pulled another egg into her nest box, so there are now five of them. Since it's so close to a possible hatching from MAYBE three eggs that have been there since the beginning, I didn't pull the extra two out. However, I almost had a...

Day Twenty Oh MY - I thought SUNDAY would be day 21.... AAACK. Anyway, last night (Day 19) when I gathered eggs, I noticed there were no eggs in the nest box next to Buffy's, and this was the third or fourth day without anybody laying eggs there. I thought, perhaps, nobody wanted to...

Days Eighteen & Nineteen I neglected to post yesterday. Yesterday, I had shredded mozzarella cheese for treats for the flock. I ALWAYS call 'em into the run when I have treats, because I don't want to be mobbed anywhere else. Because they're freely ranging in the back yard, I had to wait a...

Day Seventeen Huh. Suddenly, girls who had been laying their eggs in the nest box next to Buffy's are now laying in the nest boxes at one end of the Middles' coop. Even Rebecca, who has ALWAYS laid her egg in the A-Frame coop. And both Millicent and Minerva laid their eggs in that same nest...

Day Sixteen How is it that the time appears to go fast - Wow! only five, maybe six more days to go! - and yet it also drags - Jeez, I can hardly wait to see if any of those eggs hatch! What if none of them hatch? Minerva and Millicent each lay an egg a day, and I KNOW those are fertilized...

Day Fifteen Buffy in seclusion today, as she has been for the past two weeks and some. (She's got fresh water and feed within six inches of her nest.) She was warily curious about the camera pointing at her. Greta wanted to know what I was doing leaning into the A-Frame coop with that...

Cathy, That's an ADORABLE photo! Gosh, I hope these 3 eggs hatch! The 21st day is next Sunday, June 28th. I'm not candling the eggs, but I do know at least one of them should be fertile. Carl (the rooster, an EE) "favors" my two Lakenvelders with most of his treading so I checked two of...

Day Fourteen Okay, we're two-thirds of the way there. Buffy was off the nest and in the yard, being attended to by Carl. He kept bringing her goodies. She looked pretty good; doesn't appear to be wasting away. But I still tossed her some BOSS, which she gobbled up. Then I started back into...