OUR CHICKS ARE HATCHING!
Yesterday my sister sent me this picture of the first 2 chicks to hatch.
Today I went to visit the farm and look!
There’s now 3 little bitty baby chickens and a fourth one hatching!
If you can’t tell by looking at the many different colors of eggs, most of these chickies are likely going to be hybrids. We have 4 roosters of three different varieties and even more variation in the 30+ hens. The three that are hatched all came from white eggs, (we have no Roos of white-egg breeds) but also all have tiny black spots here and there in their yellow fluff.
The one hatching is coming from a black copper marran egg, and we do have a black copper marran rooster, so it has a 25% chance of being a purebred.
And they are so tiny and trusting! I put my hand in to pet them and one just hopped on my hand! I’m so excited!
(Not pictured: my brother’s corgi hopping on her hind legs, desperately trying to get a look at the chicks, somehow even more excited than I am).
