A message from the fathers' waiting room:

[Attack Chicken]

Congratz!!!

 

[Indiana hens]

Sorry Joe cigars are out. Do you want celery sticks and carrot sticks instead? What is the alternative; maybe just congrats!

I was thinking a free cup of joe; but that did not sound like it usually does

 

[MissPrissy]

Yeah! You have chicks. Don't give up on colors. You have to wait until they start growing in their adult feathers to be sure.

Don't forget to show us some photos!

 

[Guitartists]

 

[miss_jayne]

sorry about #2. guts totally different than just the 'goop'.

so great with the others! wow! congrats!

 

[joebryant]

Thanks, everyone, in case you didn't see my second post about my incubating eggs experience, the outcome of this hatch was not good. All of what transpired as it turned out, even chick #2, was a result of my interfering with the hatch, worrying, and repeatedly removing the incubator's lid the "to help" during days 21 and 22. It turned out that I ended up with five living chicks, one light blue and four splashes. They were all cute as the dickens, but not the two dark-blue hens that I want. I called a BYC member who posted about how she and her husband are building a coop now, had no chickens, and lives about 20 miles from me. I called her and gave them to her. She and her husband came to get them yesterday. They now have a good home. Next time I use the incubator, I'm going to not go into the room on days 21 and 22. SERIOUSLY! Live and learn!

 

[lockedhearts]

It is normal for us expectant parents to want to help. Hope you can get some Dark Blues eventually. I am hoping for Black hens myself, got lots of babies growing just not sure whos girls and boys at this point.