I love a mystery. My two broodies are in separate nest boxes that adjoin on one side. Graycie just came off the nest for a little bit to eat and drink, and under her are the following chicks:
One light yellow chick, two buff chicks with back wing stripes (they are both the color of the one behind the black chick, the light just makes the other one look lighter), and 2 black chicks with white chest and wing markings. She hatched the lavender chick on Saturday. She started out with 6 viable eggs before the lavender chick hatched. (It is having a drink behind the camera.) There is still an egg in the nest that has pipped. 2 + 2 +1 +1 is 7. Where did the other chick come from? Did it come over from the other nest box? It would have required hopping out from under Copper and hopping back up into the other nestbox.
Stinkin' cute, aren't they. @chicken danz which ones are which? Is the lightest one without black markings the white orp? You gave me White, Lavender, Jubilee, Chocolate, and BBS (there was only 1 BBS egg and it was under Graycie and it DID hatch)
Oh, and Copper has about 3 chicks under her with a couple that are still in the pip stage. I'm going to move the eggs to the brooder if they come off the nests with the babies.
One light yellow chick, two buff chicks with back wing stripes (they are both the color of the one behind the black chick, the light just makes the other one look lighter), and 2 black chicks with white chest and wing markings. She hatched the lavender chick on Saturday. She started out with 6 viable eggs before the lavender chick hatched. (It is having a drink behind the camera.) There is still an egg in the nest that has pipped. 2 + 2 +1 +1 is 7. Where did the other chick come from? Did it come over from the other nest box? It would have required hopping out from under Copper and hopping back up into the other nestbox.
Stinkin' cute, aren't they. @chicken danz which ones are which? Is the lightest one without black markings the white orp? You gave me White, Lavender, Jubilee, Chocolate, and BBS (there was only 1 BBS egg and it was under Graycie and it DID hatch)
Oh, and Copper has about 3 chicks under her with a couple that are still in the pip stage. I'm going to move the eggs to the brooder if they come off the nests with the babies.
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