Look what I've got! Java hen with chick

[Engteacher]

My Thanksgiving surprise!

 

[abhaya]

sooooooo cute

 

[Myabcs3]

Awesome! What a cuttie!!! Makes me almost wanna go hatch some...except I have 11 4 weeks old already!

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

That's so sweet- and you don't have to worry about one chick getting lonely- she has her mama- the most important person in the world!!!!

 

[Engteacher]

Two hatched so far. We're wondering if that will be it. We'll give the last three remaining eggs another day before removing them.

 

[The Turken Lady]

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Aww.. cute! Yeah,I would give them a day or so,we had a chick hatch a week after the others

,and it was just fine.

 

[barbieszoo]

So pretty! Congrats!

 

[Engteacher]

We now have four chicks with one egg left to go. I'm thinking that the staggered hatch was caused when the eggs weren't being warmed evenly. She brooded in an unheated though thoroughly insulated coop. Temps inside stayed above freezing, but just barely. Now her challenge will be to keep her hatchlings warm enough to thrive. This will be the supreme test for the next 8 weeks until they feather out fully.

Doesn't she know that this is Minnesota?