I purchased cuckoo silkie eggs, 5 of which hatched. They look blue right now. I had added one of my own eggs that happened to be laid from my paint flock when I was setting these, making a total of 6 adorable chicks!
Here are some pictures taken today of them, all were hatched on New Year's Day except on that hatched the next morning:
All of the babies
The paint chick
Close up of a couple cuckoo chicks
And the littlest of the cuckoo chicks
![love.gif](https://www.backyardchickens.com/img/smilies/love.gif)
All of the babies
![NewYearsChicks.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1217.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fdd388%2Fshaynablizard%2FNewYearsChicks.jpg&hash=f3f5bd77adaf4b7b5d1d9f3a796c80ad)
The paint chick
![paintchick2-2.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1217.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fdd388%2Fshaynablizard%2Fpaintchick2-2.jpg&hash=6c8b4e7a77b17ee2e06aa1bd90de01ae)
![paintchick-1.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1217.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fdd388%2Fshaynablizard%2Fpaintchick-1.jpg&hash=a1cfb6d52411d20a5563d87b02fab0c8)
Close up of a couple cuckoo chicks
![cuckoochick.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1217.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fdd388%2Fshaynablizard%2Fcuckoochick.jpg&hash=7d86c0121249443c02cfca317336b978)
![anothercuckoochick.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1217.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fdd388%2Fshaynablizard%2Fanothercuckoochick.jpg&hash=317b7d73374ac55fe5e17e148cb5ae45)
And the littlest of the cuckoo chicks
![tinycuckoo.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1217.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fdd388%2Fshaynablizard%2Ftinycuckoo.jpg&hash=4229186ec73d79c02290c14f67dbd8a3)
![tinycuckoosilkie.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi1217.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fdd388%2Fshaynablizard%2Ftinycuckoosilkie.jpg&hash=84fe5bfbca46145a36943bb07d735f7f)