I was next door at my SILs this evening and when I came home I found an empty egg shell which could only mean one thing! Another chick. Sure enough I checked and another had hatched. A white/yellowish chick! I am not sure if it came from a SS egg or a WL egg but I don't care. This is just too cool of an experience!
Thanks for all of the kind words. Chickens have been hatching eggs for millennia and the simple act makes me feel like a giddy 2nd grader.
3 White Leghorns. One is a bit wobbly and I had to help it out but it is holding its own
4 Silver Sebrighst (possible cross with WL).
1 SS was having a tough time of it and the membrane was dried out so I had to help it out as well. It didn't make it
3 bad eggs. Ick
So I was 7 for 11 on my first batch of broody hatched eggs!
And the good news? The WL hen who has been gone for 2 weeks reappeared today. After she snuck off I went in the general direction that we saw her return and found her sitting on a next of even more eggs!!!