3rd Annual New Year's Day Hatch!!

[gryeyes]

My little bantam EE hen, Angel, surprised the heck out of me the day after Thanksgiving by presenting me with nine little day old chicks she hatched in a hidden nest. They are ALL the same color, little dark chickie-boos! Usually my broody hens hatch eggs from several hens. Plus, these are all bantam chicks, not a single bigger one.

And I just won an auction from bargain, so I'm hoping Nancy can ship eggs closer to Dec 5, so I can set them for this Hatch. That would make a dozen pure, but mixed from different breeding pens, eggs from her, a dozen Trader Joe eggs, and a few mutt eggs of my own. (I'm gonna compare "home grown" to shipped and market egg hatching rates.)

Once it gets closer, I'll fill out the form.

 

[anderson8505]

pics pics pics we need pics of your surprises!

 

[farmerChef]

If only I had seen this earlier, I would have tried to let mom let me get an emu egg (or 2 or 3, what if one didn't hatch

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Maybe for easter……

 

[gryeyes]

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Well, okay then. Luckily, she brought the chicks near the open people door into the coop, but promptly covered them when I came in with the camera.

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So I had to get her to move so I could get some shots of the chicks. She was not happy.

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But one little straggler stayed back to look at me.

 

[wolftracks]

awwww Linda they're so cute. I love their little markings.

I was trying to check everywhere to see if I could scrounge up change for Bargain's auction, but then I saw your name. Didn't have anything to put towards them anyway, so no bid. I just figure I get half for being a good sport. Broke or not. LOL

Can't wait to see pics of them though when they hatch.

 

[farmerChef]

Do you know what they are? Looks like they have feathered legs

 

[gryeyes]

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Not surprising, as I have 3 bantam roosters with feathered feet: Charlie Buff Brahma, Nugget Mottled Cochin, and Frick mottled Cochin. So if they're Angel's eggs (and I suspect they are, although I have other laying bantam hens) then they're either bantam EE/bantam Brahma or bantam EE/bantam Cochin.

And wolftracks, I was surprised I won that auction. I had three on which I was bidding and two of them were for Silkie hens, on a whim. I have no silkies, I have not wanted silkies, I don't want any silkie eggs to hatch, but the chance to give two, possibly three laying silkies a good home seemed like a good thing. You know how auctions can make ya nuts! I didn't win those two auctions and was glad to see somebody who bid more than once got 'em.

I won the auction I wanted: different breeds in one fell swoop!

 

[wolftracks]

I saw that. Was so tempting, but I did good to click off, especially when I saw you were bidding. I tell ya though, once those survivor benefits are granted from the VA

I'm buying me some really pretty eggs from some really nice stock. Till then I need to remember I can come in here and look at pics. Then again when ya see those pictures it kind of makes you want to hatch anything you can grab up. LOL

 

[notinoz2007]

it amazes me that she had nine fluffies under her in those first few pictures. they are such cute little things.
i saw an earlier post from mahonri about setting trader joes eggs and thought it was a joke but i just read the trader joes hatching thread and am completely amazed. i think i may do that as well since this is my first hatch and i dont want to be completely overrun with chicks. plus i dont know what i am doing so want the cheapest eggs i can get. and what a story to tell my friends...

 

[wolftracks]

I've hatch a couple of the TJ eggs. Linda has some she hatched out. The first eggs I ever hatched was back in the 6th grade and those eggs were store eggs too. That or from our milkman. OK Yeah I'm old. LOL Oakland had milkmen till I was in junior high. LOL