UPDATED:Hatching while I'm on the road! (PICS ADDED 2/13! PG2)

[Ellie_NY_chick]

I'm travelling for work and my Silkies eggs are hatching - yikes! I can't get home until Monday. One hatched yesterday afternoon and is under Momma, and I got a text at 6AM saying another hatched overnight.

And get this: Momma is awhite Silkie and Daddy is either a white Silkie/Cochin or a golden laced OEG and both babies are all black! What gives?

 

[Chicken Woman]

Send us pics when you get home !!!!

 

[swtangel321]

CONGRATS on the babies

That stinks that your not there

Yes, pics when you get home would be great

 

[Teach97]

as I said in another thread...blame the Schwann's man! They get around...

 

[cozycritters]

Quote:
Maybe the mail-bird was black???

SORRY LOL-- my (black) SIL jokes about that when she and her (black-haired dark-eyed) husband had a blue-eyed blond...

 

[Ellie_NY_chick]

Well I'm home and they are adorable and not quite all black, but no white ones (dammit)! The culprit was obviously the OEG roo. Some babies are all black and some are black with a little red /gold in their feathers. Half have clean legs and half have feathered legs. We have eight inside now and one outside, plus two eggs that the Sumatra is sitting on, which I'm pretty sure are no gos. I'll let her sit on them until the weekend and then I'll dispose of them.

I'm hoping Santa brings me a camera, but either way I'll get pics posted soon. The size difference between the ones hatched Friday and the ones hatched Monday is amazing.

Oh, and judging from the fact that some are ALREADY sprouting little combs and tail feathers, I thinking half of these little buggers are roos!

Merry Christmas, or whatever Winter Soltice-related holiday you celebrate!

 

[swtangel321]

So glad to hear they are all doing well

Cant wait to see the pics they sounds so cute

 

[Ellie_NY_chick]

These pics are awful, but I'll take better ones later.

Merry Christmas, gang!

 

[flamingauburnmustang]

They are just too cute. Congratulations!!!!!

Keep us posted.

 

[Sherris Backyard Beauties]

They are adorable!