Day 543: And then there were 4...
Baby chick #4 hatched today! Hope (the first broody hen) is done sitting on her eggs and is doing a wonderful job of caring for the three chicks that are now about 2 weeks old (unnamed, Ivy, and Chance), and they're already starting to grow out their feathers!
'Unnamed' and Chance are both black/silver like their moms, while Ivy looks JUST like Ivory did when he was a baby chick! She's silver with the same golden face mask, but I can tell already that her feather pattern may look a little bit different...
But as for baby chick #4 that hatched this morning, she's doing good so far and is being cared for by broody #2, Jasmine, who is still sitting on 6 more unhatched eggs.
Unfortunately, due to limited space, we can't keep all of the chicks...In fact, we can only keep one, even though I wish we could keep them all!
So, for anyone interested in buying them, please PM me.
Also, I finally figured out a way to get those pictures onto here (sorry for the wait!). So, here they are! Enjoy!
Ivy: (Ivory's twin!)
Chance:
Ivy peeking out from under Jasmine's wing:
Chance: (she somehow flipped over on her back and couldn't get up until I helped her...but the two mother hens' reactions were priceless.
She kept peeping and kicking around to try and get up and Jasmine and Hope just stared at her with bewildered looks on their faces
)
Jasmine trying to help Chance flip back over:
After Chance's little ordeal...she decided it would probably be safer to hide under Jasmine.
'Unnamed' and Chance:
Chance: (after hatching...she almost didn't make it, for those of you who read my thread about it, which is why she's inside her own little box...)
She even had her own little teddy bear to keep her company:
But anyways, it has snowed here finally and Ivory and his family are getting used to seeing all the mysterious white stuff around their coop.
