Seven new chicks.

[edster951]

When one of my chooks went broody, I put 12 eggs under her.

2k down the road, someone was selling eggs for $3.50, so I managed to fresh ones from thier coup.

Put them under the broody hen and viola....

One is quite indignified in the top left, just hatching, and the right egg is pipping.

When I got home all 7 were here, all dried up.

 

[Josie]

Thats an awesome picture. Congratulations on the chicks!

 

[edster951]

The roo looked like a white leghorn, the hens shavers.

 

[Josie]

What are "shavers"?

 

[edster951]

Quote:
Someone has them on this site..

http://backyardchickens.com/breeds/shaverreds.html

Battery farms use them as thier layers because of thier high egg rates.

 

[thechickenkeeper]

Hi from Auckland, great photo. when you say you bought them down the road for $3.50, what for 6? were they selling them as eating eggs?

 

[buck-wild-chick]

awww cute chicks!

 

[jjackm21911]

just one word for this amazing

 

[c.wilson]

awww too cute...i love seeing hens wit lots of chicks in tow..itll be cute seeing then out and about...momma teaching them how to eat and drink and kind bugs...the most ive ever had under a hen is 8 but we had to get ride of some...but they where cute learning how to eat and forage...love it

 

[jjackm21911]

i forgot to tell you you may want to take them chicks in if it gets too cold