First broody hatched her chicks!

[Joey8765]

Yesterday and today I went and checked on Penny, (my Columbian Wyandotte Bantam), and she had hatched 5 chicks out of 7 eggs. One of the other eggs was cracked but I think it had a hard time trying to get out and got too exhausted and died, the other egg didn't have any cracks at all, so it was either infertile, or died part-way through the incubation process. I am still happy with a 5 out of 7 success rate! She is a good mother and took them for a little walk in the grass and she teaches them how to eat the chick crumbles. It's quite cute. I will probably put pictures up tomorrow!
See you then!

Joseph.

 

[cat1994]

good for you

Thats great that your Columbian Wyandotte Bantam is a good mom and that 5 out of 7 eggs made it, i have a silver laced wyandotte hen and im hopeing she will be a good broody and mom like yours

here is my silver laced wyandotte hen

 

[Joey8765]

what a lovely hen you have there! wyandottes tend to make good mothers so i hope it works out for you!

 

[flgardengirl]

She did good. I bet she is a proud mama.

 

[Joey8765]

Here are the photos!

The momma

The dadda.

Yum!

 

[write2caroline]

Aren't they great! My Dot GLW hatched eggs last spring and was great with the chicks.
Caroline

 

[Joey8765]

Oh that's wonderful.. I want to finish my incubator so I can hatch more chicks!

 

[NottinghamChicks]

What beautiful pics of the new hatchlings. Keep up the good work!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Adorable. I can't wait, my broody's eggs should hatch Wed.

 

[Joey8765]

Good luck!