First, let me say I love seeing all the broodies and their chickies! Precious! Keep em ccoming! Maybe we should start a side thread for pics of our broodies mothering the babies and watching them grow!
Second-- OMG I had the scariest near-death chick expericence Friday night! Sometime during the day when I was at work, mama Henritetta took the babies out and the 2 littlest ones, without decent wing feathers, got stuck in the gap between the big door and the board that keeps the bedding in! (the pop door is cut into the big people door) They couldn't get out and she couldn't get in and when I got home from work she was under the coop with the other 2 and these were almost dead!! one was standing there peeping madly and the other one fell out onto the ground when I opened the door! I ran them both in the house and my husband helped me warm them up. The one I thought was dead started opening and closing it's beak, so I knew there was hope. We snuggled them and breathed on them and eventually they were both peeping and walking around!!
I had put mama back in the coop and so I stuck these 2 little guys under her and they are once again a happy family!!! That was soo scary. Needless to say, I'll be opening the big door until they feather out a little more. Poor babies!!! So here are some pictures of these little cuties with the mama! The little brown chipmunks are the ones that just hatched out of the blue eggs not even a week ago, and the others hatched almost 2 weeks ago! The lightest yellow one is the "Buff Silkieton". She has smooth feathers and 5 toes! Maybe she's a "Smoothie"!!
Second-- OMG I had the scariest near-death chick expericence Friday night! Sometime during the day when I was at work, mama Henritetta took the babies out and the 2 littlest ones, without decent wing feathers, got stuck in the gap between the big door and the board that keeps the bedding in! (the pop door is cut into the big people door) They couldn't get out and she couldn't get in and when I got home from work she was under the coop with the other 2 and these were almost dead!! one was standing there peeping madly and the other one fell out onto the ground when I opened the door! I ran them both in the house and my husband helped me warm them up. The one I thought was dead started opening and closing it's beak, so I knew there was hope. We snuggled them and breathed on them and eventually they were both peeping and walking around!!
