Sorry to say, but I'm sure DH won't be giving up any chick that was hatched today if it is a girl.Yay! He's their new chicken mama! He did a fantastic job, saved the day, and was videotaping his new babies' every movements when I walked in the door. My friend was totally teasing him about his chicken mama status when we got home. It was pretty funny.
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Well in that case, I hope 3 are girls and one is a roo. That way you'll end up with your perfect number
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My DH swore/swears he doesn't like them. But every time he's in the backyard, Laya, one of our Easter Eggers, is always following him around talking to him. When I watch closely, I can see he talks back to her. Then one day she followed him across the bridge, did yard work with him, jumped on his shoulder and gave him a big snuggle against his cheek! He put her down and finished his work and on the way back across the bridge he stopped and let her catch up, picked her up and snuggled her and carried her around the yard a while. Yeah...don't try to tell me you don't like her honey, that's nonsense
Thanks Jessica for passing the word along. Thank you to everyone for helping us learn through this hatching process. What an emotional roller coaster!
Well, I'm proud to announce that Chicken Rustler's Salmon Faverolles "Fudge" is a Papa! We have FOUR energetic little chicks trying to establish a mini pecking order. 2 pipped last night. All 4 hatched today. I was not here to witness the hatching, and my husband saved the day for the last one to hatch. Two other chicks managed to push a broken shell over the last to hatch and the pipped and partially zipped egg was trapped. DH steamed up the bathroom, took the incubator in, removed the two energetic little chicks and their left-over egg shells that were trapping the last one to hatch, allowing "Chirpy" to finally get zipped out after 18 hours since s/he first pipped.
CR... do the descriptions below give you any idea of who the mothers may be?
EGG "A" - First to pip, first to hatch... the olive egg: black chick with 5 toes on each foot. No visible feathers on the legs yet. The kids named him/her "Blackie."
EGG "D" - Last to pip, second to hatch... the brown heavily speckled egg: dark mottled chick, white chest, white spot on top of his head, white wing tips, feathered legs, 4 toes. The kids named him/her "Fuzzy."
EGG "E" - Third to pip, third to hatch... white egg: yellow chick, 5 toes with lots of feathers on feet. The kids named him/her "Softie."
EGG "C" - Pipped at the same time as the first, last to hatch about 18 hours later. Needed to have extra eggshells that got pushed on top of his/her egg removed in an emergency extra eggshell procedure in a hot, steamy bathroom... brown, less-mottled egg: dark mottled chick, white chest, white spot on top of head, white wing tips, feathered legs, 4 toes, looks very similar to "Fuzzy" except has a much more distinct comb. The kids named him/her "Chirpie" because s/he is LOUD. Came out last and let the world know all about it.
After "Chirpie" is finished drying, it is going to be very difficult to distinguish him/her from "Fuzzy.
The remaining olive egg"B" is still in the incubator. We don't expect it to be viable because it never developed an air pocket.
Below... "Fuzzy" - 2nd to hatch must be missing his/her egg. Gonna make it difficult to eat out of that dish. "Softie," the yellow chick, sacked out under the heat lamp.
My kids named the chicks before I got home from Vancouver.I wanted one to be named "Chocolate Fudge" and another to be named "Vanilla Fudge". I'll have to see if I can convince the kids to rename them.
