The first two are out! Update pg 3w/PICS

[Goat_Walker]

Do you keep them in the house or just happen to walk out and catch them?

 

[portlandpeeps]

Those are the cutest!!!!! Thanks for sharing.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Nope. Not in the house. Fifi is happily hunkered down in a dog crate in the chicken coop. I just keep running in and out checking on her. Thankfully she's verrryyyy tolerant of me lifting her up to peek. Everytime I do the first babies pop out and cheep at me. Fifi then frantically stuffs them back under her.
I really am trying to be good and leave her alone! It's sooooo hard to wait. Two down. Five to go!

 

[beakkeeper]

The mean green envy monster is knocking at my door!

gotta love them chicks!

 

[lhowemt]

what kind of mama hen is that? She's really pretty

 

[Joy1]

Sweetypies

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Mama is a white silkie. A very determined broody white silkie. That's why she got to be a mama. I couldn't break the broody!
None of the eggs are actually hers though. If I guessed right when collecting, she has two golden laced wyandotte x buff orp mixes, a couple of pure buff orps, two mille fleur d'uccles and either another MF or a MF x blue silkie. Dunno on those banty eggs. They all look alike to me.

The third egg has been pipped for over an hour. I can see the little beak and it's breathing. At what point do I panic? How long does it take them to zip out? Mama isn't paying any attention to it other than to hunker down over it. Should I be concerned?

 

[sewincircle]

I am getting the itch!
Someone hide my incubator!
They are so sweet. Mama looks proud!
(If I could se her eyes) The Silkies are cute.

 

[lauralou]

I wouldn't panic about the pipped egg at all. It just takes a while. They pip, they zip, then the next thing you know, they're out!

So, just relax and let nature take it's course.

 

[magikchick]

Silkies are the best moms ever.